The Picture of Dorian Gray von Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Grayvon Oscar Wilde

Art Nr.: 0141199490

ISBN 13: 9780141199498

Release Year: 2012

Published by: Penguin Books Ltd (UK)

Cover: Taschenbuch

Cover Format: 191x132x15 mm

Pages: 240

Weight: 184 g

Language: Englisch

Author: Oscar Wilde

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The Penguin English Library Edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

'I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me ... Why did you paint it It will mock me some day - mock me horribly!'

A story of evil, debauchery and scandal, Oscar Wilde's only novel tells of Dorian Gray, a beautiful yet corrupt man. When he wishes that a perfect portrait of himself would bear the signs of ageing in his place, the picture becomes his hideous secret, as it follows Dorian's own downward spiral into cruelty and depravity. The Picture of Dorian Gray is a masterpiece of the evil in men's hearts, and is as controversial and alluring as Wilde himself.

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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.