A Novel Journal: The Picture Of Dorian Gray

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“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” —Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Ernest Once considered too scandalous to publish, Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray is the story of a young man who is granted his wish to have his portrait age in his place. But his resulting youthful handsomeness is exploited in hedonistic pursuits that horribly disfigure the once beautiful painting. The complexity and intrigue of the novel has led to its continued popularity for more than a century, the moral implications continuing to fascinate readers of today. A Novel Journal: The Picture of Dorian Gray allows readers and writers to interact with this classic novel in a new way, as they pen their own stories, thoughts, and dilemmas between the lines of Wilde’s tale. In a font so tiny that it nearly disappears, the entire text of this novel serves as the page lines of this fun fan journal. Packaged in a luxurious heat-burnished cover with stunningly illustrated endpapers and a colored elastic band to close pages tight, this book is a great gift or collectible for admirers of Wilde’s work

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Oscar Fingal O Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854. He went to Trinity College, Dublin and then to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he began to propagandize the new Aesthetic (or Art for Art s Sake ) Movement.

Despite winning a first and the Newdigate Prize for Poetry, Wilde failed to obtain an Oxford scholarship, and was forced to earn a living by lecturing and writing for periodicals. After his marriage to Constance Lloyd in 1884, he tried to establish himself as a writer, but with little initial success. However, his three volumes of short fiction, The Happy Prince (1888), Lord Arthur Savile s Crime (1891) and A House of Pomegranates (1891), together with his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), gradually won him a reputation as a modern writer with an original talent, a reputation confirmed and enhanced by the phenomenal success of his Society Comedies - Lady Windermere s Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, all performed on the West End stage between 1892 and 1895.

Success, however, was short-lived. In 1891 Wilde had met and fallen extravagantly in love with Lord Alfred Douglas. In 1895, when his success as a dramatist was at its height, Wilde brought an unsuccessful libel action against Douglas s father, the Marquess of Queensberry. Wilde lost the case and two trials later was sentenced to two years imprisonment for acts of gross indecency. As a result of this experience he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol. He was released from prison in 1897 and went into an immediate self-imposed exile on the Continent. He died in Paris in ignominy in 1900.

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