The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Hardcover

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The Picture of Dorian Gray - Hardcover

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Hardcover

by Oscar Wilde
$14.99
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Book Overview

by Oscar Wilde (Author), Peter Harness (Introduction by)

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

A perfect depiction of fin-de-siècle decadence, Oscar Wilde's only novel cuts beneath the polished surface to the murky depths of Victorian high society.

Dorian Gray is young, arrogant, and devastatingly handsome. Confronted by his beauty in the form of a portrait, and struck by the terrible realization that he will age, Dorian wishes to retain his charms forever and finds his desire granted. He abandons himself to a life of hedonism, vice and murder, yet his face remains unmarked by his evil. But, hidden in his attic, the painting ages and corrupts, and one day Dorian must stand face to face with the man he has become.

Featuring an afterword by the playwright and actor Peter Harness.

Author Biography

Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854. He studied there, at Trinity College, and then at Oxford, where he founded the cult of aestheticism. He published several books of stories, and one novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, in 1891. He had many successes as a playwright, first with Lady Windermere's Fan in 1892, and all his plays were performed in London between 1892 and 1895. A dazzling wit and flamboyant figure, Wilde's career was cut short after his homosexuality was exposed, and he was sentenced to two years' imprisonment in 1895. Released in 1897, he fled to France where he died a broken man in 1900.

Number of Pages: 288
Dimensions: 0.6 x 5.9 x 4 IN
Publication Date: March 21, 2017
ISBN9781509827831
Author Oscar Wilde
PublisherMacMillan Collector's Library
GenreLiterature
FormatHardcover
PublishedMarch 2017
LanguageENG- English
Pages288
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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