The Picture Of Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray

• Author : Oscar Wilde
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1909
• Genre: English literature
• Pages : 312
• ISBN 10 : HARVARD:32044013655998

The Picture of Dorian Gray

• Author : Oscar Wilde
• Publisher : National Geographic Books
• Release Date : 2009-10-27
• Genre: Fiction
• Pages : 0
• ISBN 10 : 9780141442464

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence. The novel was a succès de scandale and the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895. It has lost none of its power to fascinate and disturb.

The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings

• Author : Oscar Wilde
• Publisher : Bantam Classics
• Release Date : 2012-05-09
• Genre: Fiction
• Pages : 592
• ISBN 10 : 9780307757685

Flamboyant and controversial, Oscar Wilde was a dazzling personality, a master of wit, and a dramatic genius whose sparkling comedies contain some of the most brilliant dialogue ever written for the English stage. Here in one volume are his immensely popular novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray; his last literary work, “The Ballad of Reading Gaol,” a product of his own prison experience; and four complete plays: Lady Windermere’s Fan, his first dramatic success, An Ideal Husband, which pokes fun at conventional morality, The Importance of Being Earnest, his finest comedy, and Salomé, a portrait of uncontrollable love originally written in French and faithfully translated by Richard Ellmann. Every selection appears in its entirety–a marvelous collection of outstanding works by the incomparable Oscar Wilde, who’s been aptly called “a lord of language” by Max Beerbohm.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

• Author : Oscar Wilde
• Publisher : Vintage
• Release Date : 2011-07-26
• Genre: Fiction
• Pages : 210
• ISBN 10 : 9780307743527

Oscar Wilde’s enduringly popular story of a beautiful and corrupt man and the portrait that reveals all his secrets—The Picture of Dorian Gray is a novel as flamboyant and controversial as its incomparable author. Entranced by the perfection of his recently painted portrait, the youthful Dorian Gray expresses a wish that the figure on the canvas could age and change in his place. When his wish comes true, the portrait becomes his hideous secret as he follows a downward trajectory of decadence and cruelty that leaves its traces only in the portrait’s degraded image. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde’s unforgettable portrayal of a Faustian bargain and its consequences, is narrated with his characteristic incisive wit and diamond-sharp prose.

Dorian

• Author : Will Self
• Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
• Release Date : 2007-12-01
• Genre: Fiction
• Pages : 288
• ISBN 10 : 9780802199348

Will Self's DORIAN is a "shameless imitation" of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray that reimagines the novel in the milieu of London's early-80s art scene, which for liberated homosexuals were a golden era of sex, drugs and decadence before the AIDS epidemic struck later in the decade. It is "an age in which appearances matter more and more and more. Only the shallowest of people won't judge by them." Young Dorian Gray, just out of school, is a trust funded, impressionable Adonis-like blonde with none of the cynicism of the characters who end up corrupting his innocence even as they love him for it. He arrives in London to help socialite and philanthropist Phyllis Hawtree with her project of running a shelter for young drug addicts. He knows he is strikingly beautiful, that he could be a male model, but he tries not to get too caught up in the "looks thing." Basil Hallward, an artist friend of Phyllis's son Henry Wotton, meets Dorian and immediately falls for him, asking him to pose for a video installation called Cathode Narcissus, wherein Dorian is surrounded by nine television monitors which project images of himself looking into a mirror. In the book's final pages, we discover that Dorian is so taken by the images that he makes a wish that they will age while he remains eternally young. And indeed, Dorian soon swears he sees some faint traces of aging in the images. Meanwhile Dorian is so impressed with the witty, sophisticated banter between Baz and Wotton that he immediately wants to be part of their world (he is described as a social chameleon, easily slipping into the characteristics and fashions and mannerisms of those around him). Dorian, then, breaks up with his college girlfriend and takes up with Baz's friend Wotton, a rich, intelligent but affectless homosexual boozer and cokehead (and careless Jaguar driver) who has a loveless marriage of convenience with the socialite Lady Victoria, a somewhat batty woman who is fine to live in denial of her h

The Picture of Dorian Gray

• Author : Oscar Wilde
• Publisher : First Avenue Editions
• Release Date : 2015-08-01
• Genre: Fiction
• Pages : 252
• ISBN 10 : 9781467792905

Is the price of eternal youth worth a man's soul? The exceptionally handsome Dorian Gray is a model—and the muse—for a young artist, Basil Hallward. Through Basil, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, who values only the pleasurable things in life with no regard for morality. He makes Dorian realize that one day his famed beauty will fade, and he will be left with nothing. Dorian decides to sell his soul so that a portrait of him will age in his place. As he indulges in every vice and selfish whim, his portrait grows increasingly hideous. But will he learn the true cost of his corruption in time to change his ways? This unabridged edition of British playwright Oscar Wilde's only novel, first published in 1891, begins with his famous preface, in which he justifies his artistic philosophy.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

• Author : Oscar Wilde
• Publisher : Random House
• Release Date : 2007-09-04
• Genre: Fiction
• Pages : 37
• ISBN 10 : 9780099511144

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY IRVINE WELSHDorian is a good-natured young man until he falls in with the immoral Lord Henry and discovers the power of his own exceptional beauty. As he gradually sinks deep into a frivolous, glamorous world of selfish luxury, h

The Picture of Dorian Gray

• Author : Oscar Wilde
• Publisher : Harvard University Press
• Release Date : 2011-04-11
• Genre: Fiction
• Pages : 304
• ISBN 10 : 9780674057920

Publishes for the first time the author's original, uncensored typescript, in an annotated edition with 60 color illustrations.

The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray

• Author : Oscar Wilde
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2020-08-29
• Genre: Uncategoriezed
• Pages : 139
• ISBN 10 : 9798680596098

Over 120 years after Oscar Wilde submitted The Picture of Dorian Gray for publication, the uncensored version of his novel appears here for the first time in a paperback edition. This volume restores material, including instances of graphic homosexual content, removed by the novel's first editor, who feared it would be "offensive" to Victorians.

The Importance of Being Earnest Royal Collector s Edition Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket

• Author : Oscar Wilde
• Publisher : Royal Classics
• Release Date : 2021-02-16
• Genre: Uncategoriezed
• Pages : 64
• ISBN 10 : 1774762471

The Importance of Being Earnest is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personæ to escape burdensome social obligations. The major themes are the triviality of marriage, and the satire of Victorian ways.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

• Author : Oscar Wilde
• Publisher : Flame Tree Collectable Classics
• Release Date : 2020-11-24
• Genre: Fiction
• Pages : 0
• ISBN 10 : 1839641819

Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader. The young, beautiful and highly susceptible Dorian Gray is pulled into the hedonistic haze of London’s high society, where he falls under the pernicious influence of Lord Henry Wotton. Oscar Wilde’s nightmarish tale gorges on pleasure and sin, corruption and vanity, as the story takes further dark twists and a Faustian deal threatens Gray’s very soul. He will go to any lengths to keep his fleeting beauty and youth, but his painted portrait reveals the truth of his dark and twisted nature, changing its appearance at every misdeed, until the monstrous horror of Dorian’s scarred soul is too much for him to bear.

The Picture of Dorian Gray Om Illustrated Classics

• Author : Oscar wilde
• Publisher : Om Books International
• Release Date : 2023-06-01
• Genre: Uncategoriezed
• Pages : 240
• ISBN 10 : 9789384225360

The Picture of Dorian Gray is Oscar Wilde’s classic story of a young man whose beauty prompts a painter to paint a life-like portrait of him. However, all is not what it seems...Dorian expresses the desire to sell his soul, to ensure that the picture, rather than he, will age andfade. A must-read for children and adults alike! The novel is a social satire as well as a key explorer of Victorian norms. We are made to observe human emotions like love, jealousy, hate and the forces of evil and good. Oscar Wilde propagates his ‘art for art’s sake’ theory, even as he weaves a narrative around a beautiful young man (Dorian Gray) and his friends (Lord Henry and Basil).The book is a classic in the true sense of the word, as it appeals to the universal instincts of Man.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

• Author : Oscar Wilde
• Publisher : Bernhard Tauchnitz
• Release Date : 1908
• Genre: Uncategoriezed
• Pages : 332
• ISBN 10 : BNC:1001958028

The Picture of Dorian Gray

• Author : John Osborne
• Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
• Release Date : 1973
• Genre: Appearance (Philosophy)
• Pages : 116
• ISBN 10 : 0573692319

The author of Look Back in Anger, Inadmissible Evidence, and The Entertainer has created a brilliant dramatization of this classic about a man who retains his youth while the decay of advancing years and moral corruption appears on a portrait painted by one of his lovers.

The Picture of Dorian Gray and Selected Stories

• Author : Oscar Wilde
• Publisher : Signet Classics
• Release Date : 1995
• Genre: Conduct of life
• Pages : 324
• ISBN 10 : 0451526015

In the title story, a young man's quest for eternal youth and beauty ends in scandal, depravity and death.