Picture of Dorian Gray (Wordsworth Classics)

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Language
English
Format
Paperback
Pages
224
ISBN-10
1853260150
ISBN-13
9781853260155

Book description

Oscar Wilde's classic work is about a man who sells his soul for eternal youth: only his portrait ages, while he remains forever handsome and young. Wilde's allegory, first published in 1890, provides an interesting take on the Faust myth and also a probing examination of human values. Wilde himself described it as the story of "an idea that is old in the history of literature, but to which I have given new form." He was shocked and angered by the response to it by the English press, which

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