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The Picture of Dorian Gray - Couverture souple

Wilde, Oscar

 
9781551111261: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1551111268 ISBN 13 : 9781551111261
Editeur : Broadview Press, 1998

Synopsis

In Oscar Wilde’s famous novel, Dorian Gray is tempted by Henry Wotton to sell his soul in order to hold on to beauty and youth. Dorian succumbs and murders the portrait painter Basil Haliward, who stands between him and his goal. Though in the end vice is punished and virtue rewarded, the novel remains one of the most important expressions of fin de siècle decadence. It is in the preface to the expanded edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray that Wilde coined the most famous expression of his aesthetic: “There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well-written or badly-written. That is all.”

Like other Broadview Editions, this edition includes a wide range of materials from the period that help to set the text in context. In particular, the editor locates the text both in relation to elements in the mainstream culture of the day (such as the aesthetes); and in relation to the gay subculture.

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À propos de l'auteur

Norman Page, who has written numerous books on nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, has also edited The Mayor of Casterbridge for the Broadview Literary Texts series.

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Éditeur
Broadview Press
Date d'édition
1998
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1551111268
ISBN 13 
9781551111261
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
280
Éditeur
Page Norman
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