The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde author Irvine Welsh editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:20th Mar '25

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The Picture of Dorian Gray cover

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Oscar Wilde's decadent and disturbing novel with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.

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...

This hardback is part ofVINTAGE COLLECTOR’S CLASSICS, a series of luxurious books especially crafted for collectors and fans of beautiful special editions. Sumptuous design meets the highest quality production. Discover timeless classics beautifully bound for every bookshelf.

[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: 9781529954234

Dimensions: 207mm x 140mm x 23mm

Weight: 322g

240 pages