The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Forlagsbeskrivelse af The Picture of Dorian Gray af Oscar Wilde
320 pages, paperback.
Oscar Wilde's tale of a Faustian pact in Victorian England, "The Picture of Dorian Gray" is a both a slow-burning Gothic horror and a brilliant philosophical investigation of youth, beauty and desire. This "Penguin Classics" edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Mighall. 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 Picture of Dorian Gray" was a succes de scandale. Early readers were shocked by its hints at unspeakable sins, 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. This definitive edition includes a selection of contemporary reviews condemning the novels immorality, and the introduction to the first "Penguin Classics" edition by Peter Ackroyd.
Detaljer
Serie
Forlag
Penguin Books
Udgave
0
ISBN
9780141439570
Sprog
engelsk
Originalsprog
Sproget kan ikke bestemmes
Sider
320
Udgivelsesdato
30-01-2003
Format
Paperback
Varenr.
1056878
EAN nr.
9780141439570
Varegruppe
Fiction paperback