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The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde (Author)

  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • 240 Page / Published 2017-02-11
  • Category: Fiction , Classics
  • ISBN: 9780241331637
  • Language: English
  • Format: PB
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34.00 GEL

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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish playwright, poet, and author of numerous short stories, and one novel. Known for his biting wit, and a plentitude of aphorisms, he became one....

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Part of a beautiful collection of hardcover classics, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence. The novel was a succes de scandale and the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895. It has lost none of its power to fascinate and disturb.