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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Penguin English Library (28 Jun 2012)
9780141199498
| Paperback
241 pages | 127 x 196 mm | English
$ 19.99 | Value: $ 16.99
Dewey 823.8
LC Classification PS3569 .Z396

Genre

  • Psychological Fiction

Subject

  • Gray, Dorian (Fictitious Character) - Fiction
  • Hedonism - Fiction
  • Portraits - Fiction

Plot

Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman inthe eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence. The novel was a succès de scandale and the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895. It has lost none of its power to fascinate and disturb.