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The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings

by Oscar Wilde
Jeffrey Eugenides
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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 first appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel's corrupting influence, 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."

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Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

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  • Release date: June 28, 2005

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  • ISBN: 9780553901672
  • Release date: June 28, 2005

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  • ISBN: 9780553901672
  • File size: 651 KB
  • Release date: June 28, 2005

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subjects

Classic Literature Fiction Horror Literature

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English

Levels

Text Difficulty:6-12

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 first appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel's corrupting influence, 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."

From the Trade Paperback edition.

Expand title description text
Classic Literature Fiction Horror Literature
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