TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wilde,Oscar
AU  - Mighall,Robert
TI  - The picture of Dorian Gray
T2  - Penguin classics
SN  - 0141439572
PY  - 2003///]
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Penguin
KW  - Conduct of life
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Youthfulness
KW  - Portraits
KW  - Didactic fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Fables
N1  - "Reprinted with minor revisions 2003"--Title page verso; Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxviii-xlii); Picture of Dorian Gray -- Selected contemporary reviews of The Picture of Dorian Gray -- Introduction to The First Penguin Classics Edition, by Peter Ackroyd
N2  - A young man's quest for eternal youth and beauty ends in scandal, depravity and death. 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 his trial 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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