The Picture Of Dorian Gray Av Oscar Wilde

<b>The Penguin English Library Edition of <i>The Picture of Dorian Gray </i>by Oscar Wilde<br></b><br><b>''I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me ... Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day - mock me horribly!''</b><br><br>A story of evil, debauchery and scandal, Oscar Wilde''s only novel tells of Dorian Gray, a beautiful yet corrupt man. When he wishes that a perfect portrait of himself would bear the signs of ageing in his place, the picture becomes his hideous secret, as it follows Dorian''s own downward spiral into cruelty and depravity. <i>The Picture of Dorian Gray</i> is a masterpiece of the evil in men''s hearts, and is as controversial and alluring as Wilde himself.<br><br>The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.