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The Picture of Dorian Gray: Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens)
As unsettling as it is enthralling, this classic has never looked better. It’s the story of a decadent man and his portrait, engaging in themes of superficiality and societal pressures in a way that is still relevant to the modern day, and probably always will be.
Dorian Gray is having his picture painted by Basil Hallward, who is charmed by his looks. But when Sir Henry Wotton visits and seduces Dorian into the worship of youthful beauty with an intoxicating speech, Dorian makes a wish he will live to regret: that all the marks of age will now be reflected in the portrait rather than on Dorian's own face. The stage is now set for a masterful tale about appearance, reality, art, life, truth, fiction and the burden of conscience.
Oscar Wilde's only ful...
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