Oscar Wilde

Broschiertes Buch

The Picture of Dorian Gray (World Classics, Unabridged)

Beschreibung

Oscar Wilde brings his enormous gifts for astute social observation and sparking prose to The Picture of Dorian Gray, his dreamlike story of a young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty. This dandy, who remains forever unchanged- petulant, hedonistic, vain and amoral- while a painting of him ages and grows increasingly hideous with the years, has been horrifying, enchanting, obsessing, even corrupting readers for more than a hundred years.

Autor

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish poet, novelist, critic and playwright who rose to global fame in the 1880s as a larger-than-life public persona through his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and his enormously popular social comedies, An Ideal Husband, A Woman of No Importance, and Lady Windermere's Fan. After two sensational trials he was sentenced to two years of hard labor in prison for having relations with men, which ruined his reputation and career. Today Wilde is celebrated as a courageous crusader for free expression, queer love, and anyone oppressed by hypocritical conventions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Alpha Editions
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 276g
• ISBN-13: 9789386101389
• ISBN-10: 9386101386
• Artikelnr.: 48880552