The Picture of Dorian Gray (Modern Library Classics)

ISBN: 0375751513

Author: Wilde, Oscar

Condition: New

Introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides Nominated as one of Americas best-loved novels by PBSs The Great American ReadWritten in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wildes story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the authors most popular work. The tale of Dorian Grays moral disintegration caused a scandal when it ?rst appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novels corrupting in?uence, he responded that there is, in fact, a terrible moral in Dorian Gray. Just a few years later, the book and the aesthetic/moral dilemma it presented became issues in the trials occasioned by Wildes homosexual liaisons, which resulted in his imprisonment. Of Dorian Grays relationship to autobiography, Wilde noted in a letter, Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be-in other ages, perhaps.