The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde, Robert Mighall

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Penguin
01 August 2011

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Classic horror & ghost stories

Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics

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Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.

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 succ s 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.

By: Oscar Wilde
Edited by: Robert Mighall
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 134mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 420g
ISBN: 9780141442464
ISBN 10: 0141442468
Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 01 August 2011
Recommended Age: From 0 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Born in Ireland, Wilde (1854-1900) was educated in Dublin and Oxford and became the leading exponent of aestheticism. His work includes plays, a novel, poetry and criticism. Imprisoned for homosexual acts, he died after his release in exile in Paris. Robert Mighall has written on Gothic fiction and is the editor of Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde for Penguin Classics.