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The Picture of Dorian Gray

By Oscar Wilde

By Oscar Wilde

By Oscar Wilde

By Oscar Wilde

By Oscar Wilde
Introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides

By Oscar Wilde
Introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides

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Part of Vintage Classics

Part of Vintage Classics

Paperback $10.00

Jul 26, 2011 | ISBN 9780307743527

Ebook $7.99

Oct 15, 2024 | ISBN 9798217007486

Ebook $1.99

Aug 12, 2014 | ISBN 9781551997391

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    About The Picture of Dorian Gray

    Oscar Wilde’s enduringly popular story of a beautiful and corrupt man and the portrait that reveals all his secrets—The Picture of Dorian Gray is a novel as flamboyant and controversial as its incomparable author.

    Entranced by the perfection of his recently painted portrait, the youthful Dorian Gray expresses a wish that the figure on the canvas could age and change in his place. When his wish comes true, the portrait becomes his hideous secret as he follows a downward trajectory of decadence and cruelty that leaves its traces only in the portrait’s degraded image.

    The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde’s unforgettable portrayal of a Faustian bargain and its consequences, is narrated with his characteristic incisive wit and diamond-sharp prose.

    About The Picture of Dorian Gray

    Introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read

    Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde’s story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author’s most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray’s moral disintegration caused a scandal when it first appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel’s corrupting influence, he responded that there is, in fact, “a terrible moral in Dorian Gray.” Just a few years later, the book and the aesthetic/moral dilemma it presented became issues in the trials occasioned by Wilde’s homosexual liaisons, which resulted in his imprisonment. Of Dorian Gray’s relationship to autobiography, Wilde noted in a letter, “Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be—in other ages, perhaps.”

    About The Picture of Dorian Gray

    Oscar Wilde’s only novel tells the story of a man consumed by narcissism and hedonism: Dorian Gray, a beautiful youth who possesses a unique painting of himself that accrues only the marks of age and sin for him, leaving his real face perpetually young, fresh, and innocent.

    The novel blurs the lines between the Victorian gothic and the fantastic, both celebrating and criticizing the love of life and pleasure that Wilde himself is known for. At the time it was considered so scandalous that Wilde’s editor deleted sections without telling Wilde, and yet it still met with enormous backlash and accusations of moral corruption.

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    About Oscar Wilde

    Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was an Irish writer, poet, and playwright. His novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, brought him lasting recognition, and he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era with a series of witty social… More about Oscar Wilde

    About Oscar Wilde

    Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was an Irish writer, poet, and playwright. His novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, brought him lasting recognition, and he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era with a series of witty social… More about Oscar Wilde

    About Oscar Wilde

    Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was an Irish writer, poet, and playwright. His novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, brought him lasting recognition, and he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era with a series of witty social… More about Oscar Wilde

    Product Details

    Category: Classic Fiction | Literary Fiction | Gothic & Horror

    Paperback | $10.00
    Published by Vintage
    Jul 26, 2011 | 208 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780307743527

    Category: Classic Fiction | Literary Fiction | Gothic & Horror

    Ebook | $7.99
    Published by Vintage
    Oct 15, 2024 | 208 Pages | ISBN 9798217007486

    Category: Gothic & Horror

    Ebook | $1.99
    Published by McClelland & Stewart
    Aug 12, 2014 | 256 Pages | ISBN 9781551997391

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    Praise

    [A] remarkable work of imagination…A wonderfully entertaining parable of the aesthetic ideal—Guardian

    A heady late-Victorian tale of double-living—

    There’s an incurable disease afflicting females – ageing. Men, on the other hand, never pass their amuse-by dates. Sean Connery is still cutting the sex god mustard and, if time flies, then HE has frequent air miles. Yet, you never hear a man described as mutton dressed as ram, now do you? This is a book about a bloke who realises that the night is young, but he is not…—

    In The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde set the gold standard for chroniclers of decadence—Guardian

    very decadent and Victorian—Savidge Reads

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