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Synopsis
1995 Longman Group Ltd/Nelson.56-page trade paperback, British import. Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest). Dive into the chilling world of Oscar Wilde's 'The Picture of Dorian Gray.' Handsome Dorian Gray remains untouched by age or vice, while his hidden portrait grotesquely ages and decays. His sinister secret? His sins are etched not on him, but his portrait. A thrilling exploration of vanity and corruption, Wilde's masterpiece questions the price we're willing to pay for eternal beauty. Are you ready to face the hidden ugliness within the human soul? - Amazon
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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."
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Oscar Wilde's only published full length novel, is the story of a man who sells his soul for eternal youth. In exchange, what does he give up and what does he gain? This novel, by Wilde is a wonderful soul-searching example of the cost of paradise, and the price of a wish.
Read by actor, comedian, novelist, journalist, screenwriter Stephen Fry, Dorian Gray's dilemma comes alive. He has also acted in a variety of films including A Fish Called Wanda, Peter's Friends, and The Wind in the Willows.
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Condition: Como nuevo. : Sumérgete en el escalofriante mundo de 'El retrato de Dorian Gray' de Oscar Wilde. El apuesto Dorian Gray permanece intacto por la edad o el vicio, mientras que su retrato oculto envejece y se descompone grotescamente. ¿Su siniestro secreto? Sus pecados están grabados no en él, sino en su retrato. Una emocionante exploración de la vanidad y la corrupción, la obra maestra de Wilde cuestiona el precio que estamos dispuestos a pagar por la belleza eterna. ¿Estás listo para enfrentar la fealdad oculta dentro del alma humana? EAN: 9780175565719 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Literatura y Ficción Título: The Picture of Dorian Gray Autor: Oscar Wilde Editorial: Nelson Idioma: en Páginas: 64 Formato: tapa blanda. Seller Inventory # Happ-2023-03-16-e7225989
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