Oscar Wilde's tale of a Faustian pact in Victorian England, The Picture of Dorian Gray is a both a slow-burning Gothic horror and a brilliant philosophical investigation of youth, beauty and desire. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Mighall. 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 Picture of Dorian Gray was a succès de scandale. Early readers were shocked by its hints at unspeakable sins, 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. This definitive edition includes a selection of contemporary reviews condemning the novels immorality, and the introduction to the first Penguin Classics edition by Peter Ackroyd. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), son of an eminent eye-surgeon and a nationalist poet, was educated in Dublin and Oxford and became the leading exponent of the new Aesthetic Movement. His work, including short fiction such The Happy Price (1888), his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), gradually won him a reputation, which was cemented by his phenomenally successful plays, including A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ideal Husband (1895) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). Imprisoned for homosexual acts, he died after his release, in exile in Paris. If you enjoyed The Picture of Dorian Gray, you might like Joris-Karl Huysmans' Against Nature (A Rebours) Wilde's real-life inspiration for the novel that slowly corrupts Dorian Gray, also available in Penguin Classics.
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Dorian made no answer, but passed listlessly in front of his picture and turned towards it. When he saw it he drew back, and his cheeks flushed for a moment with pleasure. A look of joy came into his eyes, as if he had recognized himself for the first time. He stood there motionless and in wonder, dimly conscious that Hallward was speaking to him, but not catching the meaning of his words. The sense of his own beauty came on him like a revelation. He had never felt it before. Basil Hallwards's compliments has seemed to him to be merely the charming exaggerations of friendship. He had listened to them, laughed at them, forgotten them. They had not influenced his nature. Then had come Lord Henry Wotton with his strange panegyric on youth, his terrible warning of its brevity. That had stirred him at the time, and now, as he stood gazing at the shadow of his own loveliness, the full reality of the description flashed across him. Yes, there would be a day when his face would be wrinkled and wizen, his eyes dim and colourless, the grace of his figure broken and deformed. The scarlet would pass away from his lips, and the gold steal from his hair. The life that was to make his soul would mar his body. He would become dreadful, hideous, and uncouth.
As he thought of it, a sharp pang of pain struck though him like a knife, and made each delicate fibre of his nature quiver. His eyes deepened into amethyst, and across them came a mist of tears. He felt as is a hand of ice had been laid upon his heart.
'Don't you like it?' cried Hallward at last, stung a little by the lad's silence, not understanding what it meant.
'Of course he likes it,' said Lord Henry. 'Who wouldn't like it? It is one of the greatest things in modern art. I will give you anything you like to ask for it. I must have it.'
'It is not my property, Harry.'
'Whose property is it?'
'Dorian's, of course,' answered the painter.
'He's a very lucky fellow.'
'How sad it is!' murmured Dorian Gary, with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. 'How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. It will never be older than this particular day of June...If it were only the other way!
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It seemed to be an impossible task to outdo the former edition of 'Dorian Gray' in the World's Classics series, but Bristow has achieved his goal. The quality of the explanatory notes is, simply, superb, and the introduction is succint but informative,
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The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn. Lire la première page
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A real masterpiece:
- with a captivating story : how things will end up for Dorian? Will he realize what his eternal youth really is? A gift from heaven or a curse from the devil? The end is just perfect (I saw it coming :-) )...
- with the dialogs, the work of a perfectionist or just an endowed artist just like the character of the painter in the book; I wished I could learn them by heart...
I will definitely read it again ... soon.
- with a captivating story : how things will end up for Dorian? Will he realize what his eternal youth really is? A gift from heaven or a curse from the devil? The end is just perfect (I saw it coming :-) )...
- with the dialogs, the work of a perfectionist or just an endowed artist just like the character of the painter in the book; I wished I could learn them by heart...
I will definitely read it again ... soon.
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Above all I think that the idea of ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' is one of the greatest idea of any writer 'cause we must
realize that there might be so big a difference between the beauty of a masterpiece and what kind of man of merit we're
gonna find in whom made or inspired that masterpiece (or both of them). That artist might have been a very bad person
just like the one who might have given him that kind of feeling's power_
And so in the depths of a beautiful ocean you could discover those bad hideous revelations.
We could think what we want to think about Oscar''people got to be free''and yet who could deny that very profligate
impetuous impertinent carefree youthful red blood into his very nature?
You ought to be that reader!
For the rest you must knock down reading Oscar's writings those no trespassing signs of any bourgeois idiot!
Billy.
realize that there might be so big a difference between the beauty of a masterpiece and what kind of man of merit we're
gonna find in whom made or inspired that masterpiece (or both of them). That artist might have been a very bad person
just like the one who might have given him that kind of feeling's power_
And so in the depths of a beautiful ocean you could discover those bad hideous revelations.
We could think what we want to think about Oscar''people got to be free''and yet who could deny that very profligate
impetuous impertinent carefree youthful red blood into his very nature?
You ought to be that reader!
For the rest you must knock down reading Oscar's writings those no trespassing signs of any bourgeois idiot!
Billy.
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Ce livre est simplement un chef d'oeuvre dont on ne peut que se délecter. Il est souvent connu par ouïe dire mais rien ne vaut une vraie lecture. C'est un vrai guide de vie, un écho de Ronsard et du si fameux Carpe diem poursuivit jusqu'à ses limites. L'aspect quelque peu gothique du portrait prenant les signes des péchés du modèle pourra attirer les plus jeunes et les pousser à lire ensuite Dr Jekyll et Mr Hyde. Pour les autres: specialistes de Wilde ou non initiés, ce livre si riche pourra constituer un vrai "bréviaire de la décadence" à lire et relire pour enfin en apprécier toute la profondeur et l'esthétisme si particulier à Wilde.
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Parfaire son anglais
Dans ce que j'ai apprécié dans ce livre est le style d'Oscar Wilde que je trouve absolument beau avec un anglais très accessible et un génie de l'auteur... Lire la suite
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Ce livre je l'aime, je l'ai lu et relu des dizaines et des dizaines de fois ( en anglais français et autre) je ne m'en passe pas. Lire la suite
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Ce livre est tout à fait incroyable et soulève de profondes questions sur la morale et l'art. Oscar Wilde est un auteur d'exception, à l'image de son livre. Lire la suite
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Je connaissais le roman d'Oscar Wilde et souhaitais le relire. Donc pas de problème. L'achat sur Amazone pour une tablette est simple et rapide
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Dark and splendid!
Remembered seeing an old black and white film version of this on TV as a child and thought I'd try it as I don't normally read things that verge on horror. Lire la suite
Publié il y a 7 mois par Vorgan
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bouquin conforme à l'annonce.
le bouquin est conforme à ce qui étaint dans l'annonce.
Bien embalé et en bon état.
Rien à reprocher.
Bien embalé et en bon état.
Rien à reprocher.
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very good
I have nothing to say, evrything was perfect, the book was knew, I received it quickly, It was cheap and exactly was I needed.
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Who wants to look young forever?
Basil, who up until now was a mediocre painter after meeting Dorian Gray a young Adonis, was inspired to create a masterpiece of which he puts himself into. Lire la suite
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