This clever parody provides an alternative to the traditional gothic horror story. A wealthy American family moves into the English mansion of Canterville Chase, much to the annoyance of the resident ghost - and they go on to make the poor old spirit's life a misery. This version features the original text.
This clever parody provides an alternative to the traditional gothic horror story. A wealthy American family moves into the English mansion of Canterv...
The Picture of Dorian Gray altered the way Victorians understood the world they inhabited. It heralded the end of a repressive Victorianism, and after its publication, literature had--in the words of biographer Richard Ellmann--a different look. Yet the Dorian Gray that Victorians never knew was even more daring than the novel the British press condemned as vulgar, unclean, poisonous, discreditable, and a sham. Now, more than 120 years after Wilde handed it over to his publisher, J. B. Lippincott & Company, Wilde's uncensored typescript is published for the first time, in an annotated,...
The Picture of Dorian Gray altered the way Victorians understood the world they inhabited. It heralded the end of a repressive Victorianism, and after...
The Picture of Dorian Gray is Oscar Wilde's enduringly popular story of a beautiful and corrupt man and the portrait that reveals all his secrets. 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. Wilde's unforgettable portrayal of a Faustian bargain and its consequences is...
The Picture of Dorian Gray is Oscar Wilde's enduringly popular story of a beautiful and corrupt man and the portrait that reveals all his se...
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'How sad it is I shall grow old, and horrid, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young... If it was only the other way '
Wilde's first and only published novel recounts the story of handsome Dorian Gray who upon having his portrait painted desires that it will age and grow ugly while he may remain eternally beautiful. The painting, which reflects each of Gray's sins and transgressions in its hideousness, haunts him until it finally becomes unbearable. In this dark tale of duplicity...
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.
'How sad it is I shall grow old, and horrid, and dreadful...
Dorian is a good-natured young man until he discovers the power of his own exceptional beauty. As he gradually sinks deep into a frivolous, glamorous world of selfish luxury, he apparently remains physically unchanged by the stresses of his corrupt lifestyle and untouched by age. But up in his attic, hidden behind a curtain, his portrait tells a different story...
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY IRVINE WELSH
Dorian is a good-natured young man until he discovers the power of his own exceptional beauty. As he gradually...
Illuminating essays on philsophy, literature, soceity, and art by one of Ireland's greatest wits Oscar Wilde witty raconteur, flamboyant hedonist, and self-destructive lover is most familiar as the author of brilliant comedies, including The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband, and the decadent novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. This selection of critical writings reveals a different side of the great writer the deep and serious reader of literature and philosophy, and the eloquent and original thinker about society and art. This illuminating...
Illuminating essays on philsophy, literature, soceity, and art by one of Ireland's greatest wits Oscar Wilde witty raconteur, flamboyant he...
