The picture of Dorian Gray: Oscar Wilde - Rilegato

Wilde, Oscar

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ISBN 10: 1509827838 ISBN 13: 9781509827831

Casa editrice: Smp, 2017

Riassunto

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

On its first publication The Picture of Dorian Gray was regarded as dangerously modern in its depiction of fin-de-siècle decadence. In this updated version of the Faust story, the tempter is Lord Henry Wotton, who lives selfishly for amoral pleasure; Dorian's good angel is the portrait painter Basil Hallward, whom Dorian murders. The book highlights the tension between the polished surface of high society and the life of secret vice. Although sin is punished in the end the book has a flavour of the elegantly perverse.

With an Afterword by Peter Harness.

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Descrizione del libro:

A beautiful collector's edition of Oscar Wilde's truly brilliant Gothic novel

L'autore:

Oscar Fingal O'Flaherty Wills Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854. He studied at Trinity College Dublin and then at Magdalen College Oxford where he started the cult of 'Aestheticism', which involves making an art of life. Following his marriage to Constance Lloyd in 1884, he published several books of stories ostensibly for children and one novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891).

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Smp
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1509827838
• ISBN 13: 9781509827831
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 288