The Picture of Dorian Gray

Informationen zum Autor Oscar Wilde Klappentext Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. On its first publication The Picture of Dorian Gray was regarded as dangerously modern in its depiction of fin-de-siècle decadence. In this updated version of the Faust story, the tempter is Lord Henry Wotton, who lives selfishly for amoral pleasure; Dorian's good angel is the portrait painter Basil Hallward, whom Dorian murders. The book highlights the tension between the polished surface of high society and the life of secret vice. Although sin is punished in the end the book has a flavour of the elegantly perverse. With an Afterword by Peter Harness. A beautiful collector's edition of Oscar Wilde's truly brilliant Gothic novel Zusammenfassung A beautiful collector's edition of Oscar Wilde's truly brilliant Gothic novel

Product details

• Authors: Oscar Wilde
• Assisted by: Peter Harness (Introduction), Harness Peter (Introduction)
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2017
• EAN: 9781509827831
• ISBN: 978-1-5098-2783-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 102 mm x 156 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Collector's Library; Macmillan Collector's Library; Collector's Library; Macmillan Collector's Library; Collector's Library; Collector's Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Classics, London, Greater London, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literary, Fiction: general and literary