The Picture of Dorian Gray
of Oscar Wilde, Jeffrey Eugenides (Introduction)
Description
Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wildeâs story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the authorâs most popular work. The tale of Dorian Grayâs moral disintegration caused a scandal when it ïŹrst appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novelâs corrupting inïŹuence, he responded that there is, in fact, âa terrible moral in Dorian Gray.â Just a few years later, the book and the aesthetic/moral dilemma it presented became issues in the trials occasioned by Wildeâs homosexual liaisons, which resulted in his imprisonment. Of Dorian Grayâs relationship to autobiography, Wilde noted in a letter, âBasil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to beâin other ages, perhaps.
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 272 pages
- Publisher Random House: Modern Library
- Publication Date 06/01/04
- First Publication 07/20/90
- Language English
- ISBN 9999999999999
- Edition Modern Library Classics
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['England', 'England']
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