Dorian Gray is young, arrogant, and devastatingly handsome. Confronted by his beauty in the form of a portrait, and struck by the terrible realization that he will age, Dorian wishes to retain his charms forever and finds his desire granted. He abandons himself to a life of hedonism, vice and murder, yet his face remains unmarked by his evil. But, hidden in his attic, the painting ages and corrupts, and one day Dorian must stand face to face with the man he has become.
A perfect depiction of fin-de-siècle decadence, Oscar Wilde s only novel highlights the tension between the polished surface and murky depths of Victorian high society.
This beautiful Macmillan Collector s Library edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray features an afterword by the playwright and actor Peter Harness.
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About the Author
Oscar Fingal O Flaherty Wills Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854. He studied at Trinity College Dublin and then at Magdalen College Oxford where he started the cult of Aestheticism , which involves making an art of life. Following his marriage to Constance Lloyd in 1884, he published several books of stories ostensibly for children and one novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891).
Wilde s first success as a playwright was with Lady Windemere s Fan in 1892. He followed this up with A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, all performed on the London stage between 1892 and 1895. However Wilde s homosexual relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas was exposed by the young man s father, the Marquis of Queensbury. Wilde brought a libel suit against Queensbury but lost and was sentenced to two year s imprisonment. He was released in 1897 and fled to France where he died a broken man in 1900.
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