The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)

?Introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides

?Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde’s story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author’s most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray’s moral disintegration caused a scandal when it ?rst appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel’s corrupting in?uence, he responded that there is, in fact, “a terrible moral in Dorian Gray.” Just a few years later, the book and the aesthetic/moral dilemma it presented became issues in the trials occasioned by Wilde’s homosexual liaisons, which resulted in his imprisonment. Of Dorian Gray’s relationship to autobiography, Wilde noted in a letter, “Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be—in other ages, perhaps.”

Jeffrey Eugenides is the award-winning author of The Virgin Suicides; Middlesex, which won a Pulitzer Prize; and The Marriage Plot. Originally from Michigan, and educated at Brown University, he now lives in Berlin with his wife.

Author:

Wilde, Oscar

Genre:

FICTION / Psychological

Audience:

College/higher education

Edition Detail:

Reprint

Format:

Paperback

Pages:

254

Language:

English

Publisher:

Modern Library

Publish Date:

06/01/1998

Copyright Year:

1998

ISBN:

9780375751516

Height:

7.75 in

Wdth:

4.75 in

Thickness:

0.5 in

Unit weight:

0.45 lb