Book
The picture of Dorian Gray / Oscar Wilde. --
Record details
- ISBN: 014119264X (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780141192642 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: ix, 241 p.
- Publisher: London : Penguin Group, 2010.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published 1891. |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 14.00 |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Rich people > England > Fiction. Pride and vanity > Fiction. Good and evil > Fiction. England > Social life and customs > 19th century > Fiction. |
- Gardners
Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence. - Penguin Putnam
Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence. The novel was a succès de scandale and the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895. It has lost none of its power to fascinate and disturb.
