by Oscar Wilde · Collins Educational Glasgow · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780003701647
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«The Picture of Dorian Gray» is Oscar Wilde's novel adapted by K. R. Cripwell, published by Collins Educational in paperback (48 pages, in English).
Portrayed in his youth, Dorian Gray wishes never to change; it will be the canvas that ages and shows the traces of his double life. The story combines gothic horror with criticism of the superficiality of Victorian London.
Part of the Collins English Library series, level 3, with text adapted and simplified by K. R. Cripwell; 1985 edition.
Designed for students of English as a foreign language; graded reader level 3 for language learning.
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in the emerging Aestheticism movement of the late 19th century and is widely regarded as the greatest playwright of the Victorian era. Wilde is best known for his Gothic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), his epigrams, plays and bedtime stories for children, as well as his criminal conviction in 1895 for gross indecency and for practicing homosexual acts.
