The Picture of Dorian Gray
Author: Wilde, Oscar
Brand: Penguin
Color: Black
Edition: Reprint
Binding: hardcover
Format: roughcut
Number Of Pages: 304
Release Date: 27-10-2009
Part Number: 26569846
Details: Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.
Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence. The novel was a succès de scandale and the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895. It has lost none of its power to fascinate and disturb.
EAN: 9780141442464
Package Dimensions: 8.0 x 5.4 x 1.1 inches
Languages: English
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Author: Wilde, Oscar
Brand: Penguin
Color: Black
Edition: Reprint
Binding: hardcover
Format: roughcut
Number Of Pages: 304
Release Date: 27-10-2009
Part Number: 26569846
Details: Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.
Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence. The novel was a succès de scandale and the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895. It has lost none of its power to fascinate and disturb.
EAN: 9780141442464
Package Dimensions: 8.0 x 5.4 x 1.1 inches
Languages: English
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Author: Wilde, Oscar
Brand: Penguin
Color: Black
Edition: Reprint
Binding: hardcover
Format: roughcut
Number Of Pages: 304
Release Date: 27-10-2009
Part Number: 26569846
Details: Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.
Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence. The novel was a succès de scandale and the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895. It has lost none of its power to fascinate and disturb.
EAN: 9780141442464
Package Dimensions: 8.0 x 5.4 x 1.1 inches
Languages: English
