Introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides - Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read 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 inuence, 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."
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375751513
ISBN-13
9780375751516
eBay Product ID (ePID)
42395
Product Key Features
Book Title
Picture of Dorian Gray
Author
Oscar. Wilde
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Classics, Horror, Literary
Publication Year
1998
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.9in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
7.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pr5819.A1 1998
Edition Description
Annual,Reprint
Copyright Date
2004
Lccn
98-005466
Dewey Decimal
823/.8
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Modern Library Classics Ser.
Dewey Edition
23/Eng/20220221
Illustrated
Yes
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