Download The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde PDF

2003
Title The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Authors
Genres Contemporary Fiction Classic Books & Novels Thrillers Books Horror Books
Publisher Penguin
ISBN 9780141439570
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 Picture of Dorian Gray was a succes de scandale. Early readers were shocked by its hints at unspeakable sins, and the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895. This definitive edition includes a selection of contemporary reviews condemning the novel's immorality, and the introduction to the first Penguin Classics edition by Peter Ackroyd.
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