The Picture of Dorian Gray (THE GREAT CLASSICS LIBRARY)

by Oscar Wilde

Overview

The central image of this story is so powerful it has become a metaphor with the power of ancient myth: a man whose portrait grows old while he maintains an unnatural youthfulness - and contains to live a pleasure-centered, amoral life. Despite Wilde's claim that "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." the book has the power of an old-fashioned morality tale.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940011993190
Publisher:	Revenant
Publication date:	01/07/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	178
File size:	212 KB

About the Author

Oscar Wilde - fully Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 – 1900) - remains a very modern character in the sense that his personality and the more sensational parts of his life story are as well known to many as his work. His wit and love of paradox have remained in numerous, widely quoted epigrams, but under an air of careless irony, almost cynicism, he wrote memorable and enduring works in a number of genres, notably poetry and theater. In the early 1890's, he was one of London's most popular playwrights and several of his plays are regularly performed today. But his novels and short stories have also endured - if often overshadowed by the tragic turn in his life after he unwisely sued his male lover's father for libel and ended up in jail for two years, condemned (as a gay man) of "gross indecency" before leaving for France, where he died in poverty at forty-six.

Date of Birth:

October 16, 1854

Date of Death:

November 30, 1900

Place of Birth:

Dublin, Ireland

Place of Death:

Paris, France

Education:

The Royal School in Enniskillen, Dublin, 1864; Trinity College, Dublin, 1871; Magdalen College, Oxford, England, 1874