The handsome appearance of dissolute young Dorian Gray remains unchanged while the features in his portrait become distorted as his degeneration progresses
Publishes for the first time the author's original, uncensored typescript, in an annotated edition with 60 color illustrations.
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Wilde revised and expanded the magazine edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) for publication as a novel; the book edition (1891) featured an aphoristic preface -- an apologia about the art of the novel and the reader.
Classic fiction by Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde. and thereby embodying the patterned structure of a work of art, rather than the reverse. As the effete Dorian comes to live in the static immutable kingdom of art, the picture becomes ever more life-like.
CONTEXT CONTEXT SCAR WILDE WAS BORN on October 16 , 1854 , in Dublin , Ireland . He was educated at Trinity College in Dublin and at Magdalen College , Oxford , and settled in London , where he married Constance Lloyd in 1884.
Retells in comic book format Oscar Wilde's story of an incredibly handsome young man in Victorian England who retains his youthful appearance over the years while his portrait reflects both his age and evil soul as he pursues a life of ...
Wrote Oscar Wilde of his novel it contains much of me in it. 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.
With an Introduction and Notes by John M.L. Drew, University of Buckingham.
With an Introduction and Notes by John M.L. Drew, University of Buckingham.
The novel was met with moral outrage by contemporary critics who, dazzled perhaps by Wilde's brilliant style, may have confused the author with his creation, Lord Henry, to whom even Dorian protests, 'You cut life to pieces with your ...
Classic / British English An artist paints a picture of the young and handsome Dorian Gray.
Oscar Wilde propagates his ‘art for art’s sake’ theory, even as he weaves a narrative around a beautiful young man (Dorian Gray) and his friends (Lord Henry and Basil).The book is a classic in the true sense of the word, as it appeals ...
The handsome appearance of dissolute, young Dorian Gray remains unchanged while the features in his portrait become distorted as his degeneration progresses.
"Criticism" includes seven new essays on the novel that reflect key changes in interpretive theory in recent years and reveal the broad range of interpretive perspectives on Wilde and The Picture of Dorian Gray.
This spellbinding novel tale that warns its readers of the dangers that come with narcissism, self-indulgence, and ignorance still ranks as one of Wilde's most important works.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Set in fin-de-siecle London, this novel traces a path from the studio of painter Basil Hallward to the opium dens of the East End. Combining elements of the supernatural, aestheticism, and the Gothic, this is a work of fiction.
The author of Look Back in Anger, Inadmissible Evidence, and The Entertainer has created a brilliant dramatization of this classic about a man who retains his youth while the decay of advancing years and moral corruption appears on a ...