| The Picture of Dorian Gray Contributor(s): Wilde, Oscar (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798720680176 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $8.09 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2021 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary |
| Lexile Measure: 500 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.51" W x 8.5" (0.5 lbs) 174 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works. 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. Wilde was attacked for his decadence and corrupting influence, and 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. Of the book's value as 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." |