The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde author Irvine Welsh editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:2nd Aug '07
Should be back in stock very soon
This paperback is available in another edition too:
- Hardback£18.99(9781529954234)
Oscar Wilde's only novel: dark, captivating and intensely Victorian
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY IRVINE WELSH
Dorian is a good-natured young man until he discovers the power of his own exceptional beauty. As he gradually sinks deep into a frivolous, glamorous world of selfish luxury, he apparently remains physically unchanged by the stresses of his corrupt lifestyle and untouched by age.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY IRVINE WELSH
Dorian is a good-natured young man until he discovers the power of his own exceptional beauty. As he gradually sinks deep into a frivolous, glamorous world of selfish luxury, he apparently remains physically unchanged by the stresses of his corrupt lifestyle and untouched by age. But up in his attic, hidden behind a curtain, his portrait tells a different story...
[A] remarkable work of imagination...A wonderfully entertaining parable of the aesthetic ideal * Guardian *
A heady late-Victorian tale of double-living
There's an incurable disease afflicting females - ageing. Men, on the other hand, never pass their amuse-by dates. Sean Connery is still cutting the sex god mustard and, if time flies, then HE has frequent air miles. Yet, you never hear a man described as mutton dressed as ram, now do you? This is a book about a bloke who realises that the night is young, but he is not...
In The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde set the gold standard for chroniclers of decadence * Guardian *
very decadent and Victorian * Savidge Reads *
Very decadent and Victorian * Savidge Reads *
ISBN: 9780099511144
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 13mm
Weight: 149g
208 pages