Title:
The picture of Dorian Gray / Oscar Wilde.
ISBN:
9780141439570
9781416500278
9780375751516
9780394605142
9780679600015
9781593080259
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Publication Information:
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Physical Description:
1 volume.
General Note:
Special features and enhancements may vary by copy.
Some copies edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Mighall.
Summary:
A young man's quest for eternal youth and beauty ends in scandal, depravity and death. 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 picture of Dorian Gray was a succes de scandale. Early readers were shocked by its hints at unspeakable sins, and the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at his trial at the Old Bailey in 1895. This definitive edition includes a selection of contemporary reviews condemning the novel's immorality, and the introduction to the first Penguin Classics edition by Peter Ackroyd.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 7.7 14.0 8668.
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Electronic Access:
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OCLC Number:
ocm53071567
Availability:
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