The Picture of Dorian Gray (Penguin authentic texts)

by Anthony Burgess (Editor), OscarWilde (Author), Derek Strange (Editor), David Crystal (Editor)

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  Paperback
  1991

  $5.95

  Part of the Penguin Authentic Texts series of books that examine English language fiction, focusing on literature and language in literature. This book includes notes on language to help clarify text for both native and non-native readers of English. On its publication in 1891, The Picture of Dorian Gray was widely condemned for its immorality as, of course, was its author Oscar Wilde. And yet, this novel is an almost moral tale, depicting the spiritual and physical decay of a young man devoted to aestheticism.

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  Paperback
  2000

  $3.29

  The tale of a youth whose features, year after year, retain the same appearance of innocent beauty while the shame of his abhorrent vices becomes mirrored on the features of his portrait.

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  Hardcover
  1995

  $3.29

• New

  Paperback
  1999

  $19.11

  The story of a man who preserves his youth while his portrait visibly deteriorates with time.

• New

  hardcover
  

  $17.26

  Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. 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 in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence. The novel was a succes 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.