Picture Of Dorian Gray (Knickerbocker Classics)

Author: Oscar Wilde

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Price : 23.00 NZD
ISBN : 9781631060175
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
Imprint : Race Point Publishing
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Weight (g) : 0.7
Publication date : October 2014
Dimensions : 197mm X 152mm
Produced in : United States
RRP : 29.99
Availability date : March 2014
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Author : Oscar Wilde
Series : Knickerbocker Classics
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Language : English
Dewey classification : 813
Reading Level : General Adult
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Pages : 320
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9781631060175

Description

Artist Basil Hallward has sent a gift. A portrait that perfectly captures young Dorian Gray's handsome features. When Lord Henry tempts Dorian with a new lifestyle of hedonism and pleasure, he realizes that he would sell his soul for an eternity of debauchery. Oscar Wilde's only published novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray is a dark and sinful story of excess and vice. Explore Wilde's lavish world of Gothic fiction, and his study of lost innocence, full of captivating characters with this gorgeous edition. Complete and unabridged, The Portrait of Dorian Gray is an essential collectible that is both elegant and portable.

Author description

OSCAR WILDE was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, his only novel (The Picture of Dorian Gray), his plays, and the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death.

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