The Picture of Dorian Gray (Modern Library Audio)

Wilde, Oscar

ISBN 10: 0679432108 ISBN 13: 9780679432104

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group, 1994

Synopsis

This is the original version of Oscar Wilde's most popular work a haunting novel that shocked late-Victorian England with Its tale of youth, beauty, and moral decay. The Picture of Dorian Gray is a brilliant display of Wilde's characteristic style, full of stinging epigrams and shrewd observations. The story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth, only to discover the true cost of his bargain as corruption drives him inexorably to a terrible end, holds up a dazzling yet devastating mirror to the fin-de-siecle world, where art meets artifice and decadence wears a seductive mask of wit, privilege, and physical perfection.

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About the Author

Quentin Crisp is a famous wit and the celebrated author of The Naked Civil Servant and seven other books. He is also known as a journalist, film critic, and actor who has appeared on screen as Elizabeth I of England in Orlando and onstage, appropriately, as Lady Bracknell in Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.

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original version of Oscar Wilde's most popular work a haunting novel that shocked late-Victorian England with Its tale of youth, beauty, and moral decay. The Picture of Dorian Gray is a brilliant display of Wilde's characteristic style, full of stinging epigrams and shrewd observations. The story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth, only to discover the true cost of his bargain as corruption drives him inexorably to a terrible end, holds up a dazzling yet devastating mirror to the fin-de-siecle world, where art meets artifice and decadence wears a seductive mask of wit, privilege, and physical perfection.

Edition details

• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679432108
• ISBN 13: 9780679432104
• Binding: Audio Cassette