Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray (Aziloth Books)

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Produktbeschreibung

Oscar Wilde's famous story is essentially a morality play in gothic garb, the story of the corrupting influence all earthly beauty and pleasure. Dorian Gray is the perfect youth,filled with a noble desire to remake the world in the image of Beauty and Art. But his love of beauty extends to himself and, consumed by vanity, he dreads the coming of age and the inevitable falling away of his good looks. In a narcissistic passion, he offers his soul if only he can remain as beautiful as the portrait painted by his friend Basil Hallward - a proposal that is accepted, with hideous results.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Aziloth Books
• Seitenzahl: 106
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 170g
• ISBN-13: 9781911405092
• ISBN-10: 1911405098
• Artikelnr.: 45295750

Autorenporträt

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish poet and playwright who rose to global fame in the 1880s as a larger-than-life public persona with plays such as The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband, and Lady Windermere's Fan. The author of countless brilliant epigrams that form part of our popular lexicon, he was sentenced to two years of hard labor in prison for having relations with men, which ruined his reputation and career. Upon his release he exiled himself in France, where he died penniless. Today Wilde is celebrated as a courageous crusader for free expression, gay love, and anyone oppressed by hypocritical conventions.