The Picture of Dorian Gray
$21.05
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
10 August 2012
Summary
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
“I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me … Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day - mock me horribly!”
A story of evil, debauchery and scandal, Oscar Wilde’s only novel tells of Dorian Gray, a beautiful yet corrupt man. When he wishes that a perfect portrait of himself would bear the signs of ageing in his place, the picture becomes his hideous secret, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141199498 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141199490 |
| Author: | Oscar Wilde |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 10 August 2012 |
| Weight: | 188g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 12mm |
| Series: | The Penguin English Library |
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About The Author
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde was born in Ireland in 1854 and educated in Dublin and Oxford. He became the leading exponent of aestheticism and a famous wit, intellectual and raconteur. He wrote children’s stories, poetry, philosophical essays and several hugely popular plays, but The Picture of Dorian Gray was his only novel. The book was a succès de scandale, and later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895, when he was tried and imprisoned for homosexual acts. Wilde died in 1900 in exile in Paris.
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