The Picture Of Dorian Gray - Wordsworth Classics

Autor: Wilde, Oscar

Editorial: Wordsworth

Lenguaje: Ingles Internacional

ISBN13: 9781853260155

Reseña: With an Introduction and Notes by John M.L. Drew University of Buckingham. Wildes only novel first published in 1890 is a brilliantly designed puzzle intended to tease conventional minds with its exploration of the myriad interrelationships between art life and consequence. From its provocative Preface challenging the reader to believe in art for arts sake to its sensational conclusion the story self-consciously experiments with the notion of sin as an element of design. Yet Wilde himself underestimated the consequences of his experiment and its capacity to outrage the Victorian establishment. Its words returned to haunt him in his court appearances in 1895 and he later recalled the note of doom which runs like a purple thread through its carefully crafted prose.