Eternal youth and beauty, at a cost.
The Picture of Dorian Gray is a classic novel that delves into the themes of decadence, vanity, and the Faustian bargain. This book would be an excellent read for those who enjoy Gothic literature and philosophical musings on the human condition. Oscar Wilde's prose is both beautiful and haunting, and the characters are complex and morally ambiguous. Readers will be drawn into Dorian Gray's world of temptation and excess, and will be left questioning the nature of humanity and the pursuit of perfection.
ISBN: 9780141442464
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date of Publication: 2008-11-06
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 4.12
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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 inthe 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.
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