The Picture of Dorian Gray (Modern Library Classics)

The Picture of Dorian Gray (Modern Library Classics)
by Oscar Wilde, Jeffrey Eugenides
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Review & Description

i>>?Introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides
 
i>>?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 i{not}rst appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel’s corrupting ini{not}uence, 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.”

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #249961 in Books
• Published on: 1998-06-01
• Released on: 1998-06-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .65" h x 5.32" w x 8.02" l, .49 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages