by Oscar Wilde · Konemann UK Ltd · tapa dura · ISBN 9783895080982
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«The Picture of Dorian Gray» is Oscar Wilde's gothic and philosophical novel, published by Konemann UK Ltd in hardcover (262 pages, in English).
Young Dorian Gray poses for a portrait painted by his friend Basil Hallward. He wishes that the picture, not he, would age: the canvas ends up reflecting his excesses while he keeps his youth. The novel reflects on beauty, vanity, art and conscience.
It belongs to the Konemann Classics collection. The novel was originally published in 1890.
For readers of classic literature and gothic fiction, and for those who appreciate the philosophical and moral background of the novel.
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.
