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The Picture of Dorian Gray: Oscar Wilde (Vintage Classics)

The Picture of Dorian Gray: Oscar Wilde (Vintage Classics)

by Irvine Welsh (Introduction), Oscar Wilde (Author)

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    Paperback 2007

    $9.19

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    Paperback 2008

    $3.24

  • Used

    Hardcover 1995

    $53.54

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    Paperback 1999

    $18.81
Synopsis

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY IRVINE WELSH. Dorian is a good-natured young man until he discovers the power of his own exceptional beauty. As he gradually sinks deep into a frivolous, glamorous world of selfish luxury, he apparently remains physically unchanged by the stresses of his corrupt lifestyle and untouched by age. But up in his attic, hidden behind a curtain, his portrait tells a different story...

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 208
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 02 Aug 2007
ISBN 10: 0099511142
ISBN 13: 9780099511144
Book Overview: Oscar Wilde's only novel: dark, captivating and intensely Victorian

Media Reviews
[A] remarkable work of imagination...A wonderfully entertaining parable of the aesthetic ideal * Guardian *
A heady late-Victorian tale of double-living -- Sarah Waters
There's an incurable disease afflicting females - ageing. Men, on the other hand, never pass their amuse-by dates. Sean Connery is still cutting the sex god mustard and, if time flies, then HE has frequent air miles. Yet, you never hear a man described as mutton dressed as ram, now do you? This is a book about a bloke who realises that the night is young, but he is not... -- Kathy Lette
In The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde set the gold standard for chroniclers of decadence * Guardian *
Very decadent and Victorian * Savidge Reads *
Author Bio
Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin on 16 October 1854. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin and Magdalen College, Oxford. He later lived in London and married Constance Lloyd there in 1884. Wilde was a leader of the Aesthetic Movement. His only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, was first published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890. He published a revised and expanded edition in 1891 in response to negative reviews which criticised the book's immorality. Wilde became famous through of the immense success of his plays such as Lady Windemere's Fan (1892), An Ideal Husband (1895) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). In 1985, after a public scandal involving Wilde's relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas, he was sentenced to two years' hard labour in Reading Gaol for 'gross indecency'. His poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol was based on his experiences in prison and was published in 1898. After his release, Wilde never lived in England again and died in Paris on 30 November 1900. He is buried in Pere Lachaise cemetery.