The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

Hardback book
Marshall Cavendish 1992 (First Marshall Cavendish 1986)

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 influence, 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.”

Condition:
The book is in very good general condition.  The cover has minor marks and wear.  Inside, the book has slight creasing, minor marks and creases and slight age browning to the edges.  The pages appear to be in tight and clean condition.