The Picture Of Dorian Gray: (Unabridged Classic) [Paperback]

Wilde's only novel hands its subject a bargain no one signs: Dorian stays as he looks on the day his portrait is finished, while the canvas absorbs everything he does afterwards. This unabridged Penguin Select Classics paperback runs 224 pages. Around the central conceit Wilde builds a comedy of London drawing rooms, with Lord Henry Wotton supplying epigrams that are quoted far more often than they are examined, and Basil Hallward standing in for the artist who believes his work can be innocent. The book reads quickly and argues seriously about art, influence and the cost of a life arranged entirely around pleasure. Details that matter: • Unabridged text, 224 pages, Penguin Select Classics paperback • Wilde's single completed novel • Dense with the epigrams that made his reputation • A short classic that suits a single weekend of reading A good fit for readers of late Victorian fiction and for anyone who knows Wilde from the plays, published under Penguin Select Classics and available at Boipoka.