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The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde
Publication Date: 15/09/1999

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Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title-offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.

This edition of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by Nancy Springer.

When Dorian Gray, a wealthy but naive and irresistible young man, has his portrait pointed, he rashly wishes that he could remain as beautiful, youthful, and alluring as the handsome face in the portrait. Little does he know that his wish will come true. When encouraged by the decadent Lord Henry Wotton into a life of depravity and self-indulgence, Gray is stunned to discover that while the face in the painting is aging grotesquely, he is not In fact, he remains as beautiful as ever. Nothing ages him.

But Gray's wanton lifestyle will eventually catch up with him, and the consequences of his reckless behavior will come to haunt him."

ISBN:
9780812567113
9780812567113
Category:
Classic fiction
Publication Date:
15-09-1999
Language:
English
Publisher:
Tom\Doherty#Associates, LLC
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
170.69x108.71x15.75mm
Weight:
0.11kg
Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde was a celebrated Irish-born playwright, short story writer, poet, and personality in Victorian London.

He is best known for his involvement in the aesthetic movement and his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, as well as his many plays, such as Lady Windermere's Fan, The Importance of Being Ernest, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and Salom.

During his imprisonment for gross indecency, he wrote De Profundis, and later, The Ballad of Reading Gao.

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