The Picture of Dorian Gray

Vintage Classics

By: Oscar Wilde, Irvine Welsh (Introduction by)

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Paperback | 1 September 2007 | Edition Number 1

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‘The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it’ The Picture of Dorian Gray

With an introduction by Irvine Welsh

Dorian is a good-natured young man until he falls in with the immoral Lord Henry and discovers the power of his own exceptional beauty. As he gradually sinks deep into a frivolous, glamorous world of selfish luxury, he apparently remains physically unchanged by the stresses of his corrupt and decadent lifestyle and untouched by age. But up in his attic, hidden behind a curtain, his portrait tells a different story

About the Author

Bom in 1854, Oscar Wilde became one of the most flamboyant and controversial literary figures of his time. Once a journalist and lecturer, Wilde's career reached its peak between 1890 and 1895, when he wrote THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, a volume of children's stories, and a succession of enormously successful plays that reintroduced the comedy of manners to the English Stage, including his most famous work, THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST. He died in 1900.

Industry Reviews

[A] remarkable work of imagination...A wonderfully entertaining parable of the aesthetic ideal * Guardian *
A heady late-Victorian tale of double-living -- Sarah Waters
There's an incurable disease afflicting females - ageing. Men, on the other hand, never pass their amuse-by dates. Sean Connery is still cutting the sex god mustard and, if time flies, then HE has frequent air miles. Yet, you never hear a man described as mutton dressed as ram, now do you? This is a book about a bloke who realises that the night is young, but he is not... -- Kathy Lette
In The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde set the gold standard for chroniclers of decadence * Guardian *
Very decadent and Victorian * Savidge Reads *

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