The Picture of Dorian Gray (Alma Classic) - Oscar Wilde Dorian Gray is having his picture painted by Basil Hallward, who is charmed by his looks. But when Sir Henry Wotton visits and seduces Dorian into the worship of youthful beauty with an intoxicating speech, Dorian makes a wish he will live to regret: that all the marks of age will now be reflected in the portrait rather than on Dorian’s own face. The stage is now set for a masterful tale about appearance, reality, art, life, truth, fiction and the burden of conscience. Oscar Wilde’s only full-length novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray is a lasting gem of sophisticated wit and playfulness, which brings together all the best elements of his talent in a reinterpretation of the Faustian myth. 'Reading and rereading Wilde throughout the years, I noticed something that his panegyrists had not, it seems, suspected: namely the verifiable, elementary fact that Wilde was virtually always right.' Jorge Luis Borges 'Wilde stood for art. He stood for nothing less all his life... He is still enormously underestimated as an artist and thinker... Wilde was a great writer and a great man.' Stephen Fry 'Every line that Wilde ever wrote affected me so enormously.' Morrissey 'I think The Picture of Dorian Gray stands as high as it ever has.' Will Self 'A heady late-Victorian tale of double-living, in which Dorian’s fatal, corruptive influence over women and men alike is left suggestively indistinct.' Sarah Waters z kategorie Knihy | Cizojazyčná literatura | English literature | Fiction and Literature | Contemporary Fiction od Alma Classic naleznete ne e-shopu KnihyDobrovsky.cz! The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde Wilde's only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with its exploration of the myriad interrelationships between art, life, and consequence. From its provocative Preface, challenging the reader to believe in 'art for art's sake', to its sensational conclusion, the story self-consciously experiments with the notion of sin as an element of design. Yet Wilde himself underestimated the consequences of his experiment, and its capacity to outrage the Victorian establishment. Its words returned to haunt him in his court appearances in 1895, and he later recalled the 'note of doom' which runs like 'a purple thread' through its carefully crafted prose. z kategorie Knihy | Cizojazyčná literatura | English literature od Wordsworth Editions naleznete ne e-shopu KnihyDobrovsky.cz!