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The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings

✍ Scribed by Oscar Wilde

Book ID: 100274177
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Year: 2005;2008
Tongue: English
Weight: 288 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780553381009

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✦ Synopsis

Introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides

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 Dorian Gray." 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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