Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray

"The Picture of Dorian Gray" is Oscar Wilde's most famous work, his only novel, which at the time of its release sparked a flurry of negative reviews, yet nonetheless achieved incredible success.
The novel's protagonist, the handsome Dorian, is a dual and ambiguous figure. A refined aesthete and romantic becomes a ruthless criminal. The attempt to preserve his extraordinary beauty and youth ends in failure. Instead of the hero, his portrait ages—but this cannot go on forever, and Dorian's death sets everything in its place.
Oscar Wilde's novel remains highly relevant today—does the pursuit of eternal youth not sometimes result in the loss of one's true self?
This edition includes the scandalous, mesmerizing novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray," all of Wilde's short stories and novellas (including "The Canterville Ghost," "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime," and others), the famous poems "The Sphinx" and "The Ballad of Reading Gaol," as well as elegant prose poems.

Author: Oscar Wilde

Translation: Maria Abkina, Dmitry Agrachev, Konstantin Balmont

Pages: 480 (offset). Hardcover

Dimensions: 206x122x25 mm