The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2008
Penguin Classics (Verlag)
978-0-14-144246-4 (ISBN)

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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 succès 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.

Born in Ireland, Wilde (1854-1900) was educated in Dublin and Oxford and became the leading exponent of aestheticism. His work includes plays, a novel, poetry and criticism. Imprisoned for homosexual acts, he died after his release in exile in Paris. Robert Mighall has written on Gothic fiction and is the editor of Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde for Penguin Classics.

Reihe/Serie	Penguin Clothbound Classics
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	137 x 207 mm
Gewicht	425 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
	Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Horror
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-14-144246-8 / 0141442468
ISBN-13	978-0-14-144246-4 / 9780141442464
Zustand	Neuware