Name: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Vintage Classics)
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Author: Oscar Wilde
ISBN: 9780307743527

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The Picture of Dorian Gray (Vintage Classics)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Oscar Wilde

Introduction by

Jeffrey Eugenides

Publisher

Vintage

Year

2011

Language

English

Pages

208

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3 x 13.2 x 1.5 cm

Weight

0.23 kg.

ISBN13

9780307743527

Edition No.

Synopsis "The Picture of Dorian Gray (Vintage Classics) "

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.

Oscar Wilde

(Author)

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Oscar Wilde is considered one of the most prominent playwrights of late Victorian London. Additionally, he was a celebrity of the time due to his great and sharp wit. Today, he is remembered for his epigrams, his short stories, his plays, his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the tragedy of his imprisonment, followed by his premature death.

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Jeffrey Eugenides

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Jeffrey Eugenides (Detroit, 1960) studied at Brown and Stanford universities. He is the author of three acclaimed novels, all published by Anagrama: The Virgin Suicides, adapted into a film by Sofia Coppola: "Extraordinary novel, the Lisbon sisters are to the literature of the nineties what Holden Caulfield from The Catcher in the Rye was to the fifties" (Sergi Sánchez, El Mundo); Middlesex, which won the 2003 Pulitzer and was considered one of the best novels of recent decades: "Outstanding, very powerful" (Antonio Fontana, ABC); "Magnificent family saga, a dazzling novel" (Ignacio Martínez de Pisón); "Colossal" (David Guzmán, La Razón); and The Marriage Plot: "Fine and empathetic... Eugenides returns to claim his place among the master craftsmen of the (great) (American) novel" (Rubén Pujol, Rockdelux); "A luminous meditation on the distance between literature and life" (Eduardo Lago, El País).

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