by Oscar Wilde · Penguin Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140623222
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«The Picture of Dorian Gray» is Oscar Wilde's gothic novel, published by Penguin Books in paperback (214 pages, in English).
Dorian Gray, a young man admired for his beauty, keeps his youth intact while the portrait painted by Basil Hallward reflects the marks of a life devoted to pleasure and decadence. The story explores the cult of appearance, the limits of desire, and the tension between art, ethics, and conscience.
It is the only novel Oscar Wilde wrote, originally published in 1890; this edition belongs to the Penguin Popular Classics collection.
It is aimed at readers of English classics and literature students.
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.
