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The Picture of Dorian Gray (Broadview Literary Texts) [Paperback]

Autor Oscar Wilde / Norman Page

Editorial BROADVIEW PRESS

The Picture of Dorian Gray (Broadview Literary Texts) [Paperback]
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In Oscar Wilde’s famous novel, Dorian Gray is tempted by Henry Wotton to sell his soul in order to hold on to beauty and youth. Dorian succumbs and murders the portrait painter Basil Haliward, who stands between him and his goal. Though i...

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  • Editorial BROADVIEW PRESS
  • ISBN13 9781551111261
  • ISBN10 1551111268
  • Tipo LIBRO
  • Colección INGLES #
  • Idioma Inglés
  • Encuadernación Paperback

The Picture of Dorian Gray (Broadview Literary Texts) [Paperback]

Autor Oscar Wilde / Norman Page

Editorial BROADVIEW PRESS

In Oscar Wilde’s famous novel, Dorian Gray is tempted by Henry Wotton to sell his soul in order to hold on to beauty and youth. Dorian succumbs and murders the portrait painter Basil Haliward, who stands between him and his goal. Though i...

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In Oscar Wilde’s famous novel, Dorian Gray is tempted by Henry Wotton to sell his soul in order to hold on to beauty and youth. Dorian succumbs and murders the portrait painter Basil Haliward, who stands between him and his goal. Though in the end vice is punished and virtue rewarded, the novel remains one of the most important expressions of fin de siecle decadence. It is in the preface to the expanded edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray that Wilde coined the most famous expression of his aesthetic: "There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well-written or badly-written. That is all."

Like other Broadview Literary Texts, this edition includes a wide range of materials from the period that help to set the text in context. In particular, the editor locates the text both in relation to elements in the mainstream culture of the day (such as the aesthetes); and in relation to the gay subcultu