The Picture of Dorian Gray

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

On its first publication The Picture of Dorian Gray was regarded as dangerously modern in its depiction of fin-de-si cle decadence. In this updated version of the Faust story, the tempter is Lord Henry Wotton, who lives selfishly for amoral pleasure; Dorian's good angel is the portrait painter Basil Hallward, whom Dorian murders. The book highlights the tension between the polished surface of high society and the life of secret vice. Although sin is punished in the end the book has a flavour of the elegantly perverse.

With an Afterword by Peter Harness.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Wilde, Oscar
Published: 03/21/2017
Publisher: MacMillan Collector's Library
ISBN: 9781509827831
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 5.90h x 4.00w x 0.60d