"Those who have much are often greedy," Oscar Wilde liked to say, author of this moving novel, that tells the story of a giant who returns to hiscastle after a long absence and in the garden finds the village children playing happily. Annoyed he chases them and builds a wall to preventthem from returning. Spring is coming but the cold of winter in the garden has remained, ice that even summer can’t melt. One day the villagechildren discover a hole in the wall built by the giant, get into the garden, climb trees happy and joyful, and they suddenly blossom. A child too young to be able to climb a tree has a face streaked with tears and the giant, repented for his selfishness, lifts him and places on a branch. At last he felt happy. One day, however, he realizes that the child's hands are injured ...