The Picture of Dorian Gray The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray

(A Modern Library Book)

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Publisher Description

Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is his most popular work. Written in Wilde's characteristically dazzling manner, full of stinging epigrams and shrewd observations, the tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused something of a scandal when it first appeared in 1890. Wilde was attacked for his decadence and corrupting influence. He responded that, while he was 'quite incapable of understanding how a work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint,' there is, in fact, 'a terrible moral in Dorian Gray.' A few years later the book and the aesthetic/moral dilemma it presented became issues in the trials occasioned by Wilde's homosexual liaisons, trials that resulted in his imprisonment.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
1998
June 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
304
Pages
PUBLISHER
Random House Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
861
KB

Customer Reviews

rcniman ,

Misleading description

It claims there is an introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides. This edition contains no introduction at all.

And the quoted review cites a different introduction, annotations, and illustrations. This edition actually comtadins none of those.

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