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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100143106147
ISBN-139780143106142
eBay Product ID (ePID)102906071
Product Key Features
Book TitlePicture of Dorian Gray
Number of Pages224 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPsychological, Classics, Horror, Literary
Publication Year2010
IllustratorToledo, Ruben, Yes
GenreFiction
AuthorOscar. Wilde
Book SeriesPenguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
FormatUk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight8.8 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2010-026239
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition23
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal823/.8
SynopsisWilde's masterful and wonderfully entertaining exploration of art and morality, in a chic new deluxe edition 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 inthe eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence. The novel was a succ s 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. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators., Wilde's masterful and wonderfully entertaining exploration of art and morality, in a chic new deluxe edition 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 inthe 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. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.