The Picture of Dorian Gray

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ISBN: 9781789559620
Author : Oscar Wilde
Published: 2021
Publisher: Legend Press Ltd
Number of pages: 240
Language: English
Format: Paperback

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"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."Initially met with controversy and censorship, The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only novel by the incomparable Oscar Wilde. It is bursting with his trademark wit, his love of art, and his embrace of life and all it has to offer.

Dorian, fearful of age and the subsequent fading of his beauty, expresses a wish: that a glorious oil portrait of him suffers the burden of age, and not him. He would sell his soul for it. Unfortunately for him, the wish is granted.

Through Dorian, Oscar Wilde weaves an unforgettable tale about the punishment of excess and misplaced desire.

Told in an exquisite blend of the Gothic and the philosophical, this fable about our obsession with the aesthetic unravels a horrifying truth: it is not if, but when and where our sins will manifest.

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