The Picture of Dorian Gray (Modern Library Classics)
"<b> Introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides • Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's <i>The Great American Read</i></b> Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal...
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1998
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| Summary: | "<b> Introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides • Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's <i>The Great American Read</i></b> 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 first appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel's corrupting influence, he responded that there is, in fact, "a terrible moral in <i>Dorian Gray</i>." 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." " |
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| ISBN: | 9780375751516 |