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The picture of Dorian Gray and other writings / by Oscar Wilde ; edited with an introduction by Richard Ellmann.
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 when it first appeared in 1890. 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."
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- ISBN: 9780553212549
- ISBN: 0553212540
- Physical Description: xx, 565 pages ; 18 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Bantam Dell, 2005.
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| Formatted Contents Note: | The picture of Dorian Gray -- Lady Windermere's fan -- Salome -- An ideal husband -- The importance of being earnest -- The ballad of Reading Gaol. |
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