THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY

    The Picture of Dorian Gray caused outrage when it was first published in 1890 and marked the onset of Oscar Wilde's own fatal reutation and eventual downfall.An evocative portrayal of London life and a powerful blast against the hypocrisies of Victorian polite society it has become one of Oscar Wilde's most celebrated works,full of the flamboyant wit for which he is justly renowned.



作者简介
Oscar Wilde（1854-1900）.Playwright,poet,essayist and wit,he is now as famous for his idioms and decadent lifestyle as for his plays,poems and fiction.

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was born in Dublin. He wrote witty and satirical plays including The Importance of Being Earnest, as well as short stories, fairy tales, essays, and poetry.

Robert Mighall edited Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror for Penguin Classics.

Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning novelist, critic, and biographer. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."

As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

PHASE THE FIRST
THE MAIDES
PHASE THE SECOND
MAIDEN NO MORE
PHASE THE THIRD
THE RALLY
PHASE THE FOURTH
THE CONSEQUENCE
PHASE THE FIFTH
THE WOMAN PAYS
PHASE THE SIXTH
THE CONVERT
PHASE THE SEVENTH
FULFILMENT