The Picture of Dorian Gray (Deluxe Hardbound Edition) (Hardcover)

A painted portrait ages while its subject does not, and Oscar Wilde uses that single impossible arrangement to price out a life of pure appetite. Basil Hallward's canvas, Lord Henry Wotton's talk and Dorian's own decisions drive a short, quick novel that travels from a London studio to the worst parts of the city and back again. The 240-page hardbound edition keeps Wilde's epigrams and his preface on art and morality in place. For the shelf: • Wilde's only novel, complete in 240 hardbound pages • the author's preface on art retained at the front • epigrammatic dialogue that holds up when read aloud • a compact length for anyone new to Victorian fiction Aimed at students of English literature and readers who like gothic fiction with wit, published by Fingerprint! Publishing and available at Boipoka.