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.