The Picture of Dorian Gray (Legend Classics) - by Oscar Wilde (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Initially met with controversy and censorship, the only novel by the incomparable Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, is bursting with his trademark wit, his love of art, and his embrace of life and all it has to offer.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Part of the <i>Legend Classics </i>series</b></p><p><i>The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.</i><p><b>Initially met with controversy and censorship, <cite>The Picture of Dorian Gray</cite> is the only novel by the incomparable Oscar Wilde. It is bursting with his trademark wit, his love of art, and his embrace of life and all it has to offer.</b><p>Dorian, fearful of age and the subsequent fading of his beauty, expresses a wish: that a glorious oil portrait of him suffers the burden of age, and not him. He would sell his soul for it. Unfortunately for him, the wish is granted.</p><p>Through Dorian, Oscar Wilde weaves an unforgettable tale about the punishment of excess and misplaced desire.</p><p>Told in an exquisite blend of the Gothic and the philosophical, this fable about our obsession with the aesthetic unravels a horrifying truth: it is not if, but when and where our sins will manifest.</p><p>The <i>Legend Classics</i> series: <br />Around the World in Eighty Days<br />The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn<br />The Importance of Being Earnest<br />Alice's Adventures in Wonderland<br />The Metamorphosis<br />The Railway Children<br />The Hound of the Baskervilles<br />Frankenstein<br />Wuthering Heights<br />Three Men in a Boat<br />The Time Machine<br />Little Women<br />Anne of Green Gables<br />The Jungle Book<br />The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories<br />Dracula<br />A Study in Scarlet<br />Leaves of Grass<br />The Secret Garden<br />The War of the Worlds<br />A Christmas Carol<br />Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde<br />Heart of Darkness<br />The Scarlet Letter<br />This Side of Paradise<br />Oliver Twist<br />The Picture of Dorian Gray<br />Treasure Island<br />The Turn of the Screw<br />The Adventures of Tom Sawyer<br />Emma<br />The Trial<br />A Selection of Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe<br />Grimm Fairy Tales<br />The Awakening<br />Mrs Dalloway<br />Gulliver's Travels<br />The Castle of Otranto<br />Silas Marner<br />Hard Times</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Oscar Wilde</b> is the author of <i>The Picture of Dorian Gray</i> and <i>The Importance of Being Earnest</i>.
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