Description: Introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde’s story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author’s most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray’s moral disintegration caused a scandal when it first appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel’s corrupting influence, he responded that there is, in fact, “a terrible moral in Dorian Gray.” Just a few years later, the book and the aesthetic/moral dilemma it presented became issues in the trials occasioned by Wilde’s homosexual liaisons, which resulted in his imprisonment. Of Dorian Gray’s relationship to 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.”
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Brand: Unbranded
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Book Title: Picture of Dorian Gray
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication Year: 1998
Item Height: 0.7 in
Topic: Classics, Horror, Literary
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 7.7 Oz
Item Length: 7.9 in
Author: Oscar. Wilde
Book Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Item Width: 5.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
