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The Picture of Dorian Gray: Penguin Clothbound Classics by Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Penguin Clothbound Classics by Oscar Wilde
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Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. 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 novel was a succès de scandale and the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895. It has lost none of its power to fascinate and disturb.
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Classic Gothic Horror Novel set in Victorian England. Oscar Wilde brilliantly highlights the social problems of his time, specifically as it relates to the duality between the upper and lower classes and the rigid morality which leads to its counter manifestation: debauchery. What hides beneath the gloss and shine in Victorian England is its darkness.