The Picture of Dorian Gray

von Oscar Wilde

210 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Oscar Wilde’s enduringly popular story of a beautiful and corrupt man and the portrait that reveals all his secrets—The Picture of Dorian Gray is a novel as flamboyant and controversial as its incomparable author.Entranced by the perfection of his recently painted portrait, the youthful Dorian Gray expresses a wish that the figure on the canvas could age and change in his place. When his wish comes true, the portrait becomes his hideous secret as he follows a downward trajectory of decadence and cruelty that leaves its traces only in the portrait’s degraded image. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde’s unforgettable portrayal of a Faustian bargain and its consequences, is narrated with his characteristic incisive wit and diamond-sharp prose.

• Reihe: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• ISBN: 9780307743527
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 26.07.2011
• Größe: 204 x 134 mm
• Verlag: Random House