Name: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Price: 306.00 ZAR
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Author: Oscar Wilde
ISBN: 9781542346948

Type

Physical Book

Author

Oscar Wilde

Illustrated by

Kenneth Andrade

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

120

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

25.4 x 17.8 x 0.6 cm

Weight

0.22 kg.

ISBN13

9781542346948

Synopsis "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

The Picture of Dorian Gray is a philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. The magazine's editor feared the story was indecent, and without Wilde's knowledge, deleted roughly five hundred words before publication. Despite that censorship, The Picture of Dorian Gray offended the moral sensibilities of British book reviewers, some of whom said that Oscar Wilde merited prosecution for violating the laws guarding the public morality. In response, Wilde aggressively defended his novel and art in correspondence with the British press, although he personally made excisions of some of the most controversial material when revising and lengthening the story for book publication the following year.

Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde is considered one of the most prominent playwrights of late Victorian London. Additionally, he was a celebrity of the time due to his great and sharp wit. Today, he is remembered for his epigrams, his short stories, his plays, his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the tragedy of his imprisonment, followed by his premature death.

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