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The Picture of Dorian Gray

By Oscar Wilde
Introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides

By Oscar Wilde
Introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides

By Oscar Wilde
Introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides

By Oscar Wilde
Introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides

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Part of Vintage Classics

Paperback $8.95

Jul 26, 2011 | ISBN 9780307743527

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

    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

    Product Details

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction | Gothic & Horror

    Paperback | $8.95
    Published by Vintage
    Jul 26, 2011 | 208 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780307743527

    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—Sarah Waters

    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…—Kathy Lette

    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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