by Oscar Wilde · Penguin Books, Limited (UK) · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9780140620337
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«The Picture of Dorian Gray» is Oscar Wilde's gothic novel, published by Penguin Books in paperback (256 pages, in English).
Dorian Gray, a young man of high Victorian society, sees his beauty immortalized in a portrait; while he retains his youth, the painting reflects the moral decay of a life devoted to hedonism. The novel combines gothic horror with social criticism to explore vanity, decadence and the price of beauty.
Oscar Wilde's only novel, this 1994 edition belongs to the Penguin Popular Classics collection.
A suitable read for fans of classics, gothic fiction and Victorian literature.
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.
