The Picture of Dorian Gray (Legend Classics) av Oscar Wilde

<b><i>“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”</i></b></p><p>Initially met with controversy and censorship, <cite>The Picture of Dorian Gray</cite> is the only novel by the incomparable Oscar Wilde. It is bursting with his trademark wit, his love of art, and his embrace of life and all it has to offer.</b><p>Dorian, fearful of age and the subsequent fading of his beauty, expresses a wish: that a glorious oil portrait of him suffers the burden of age, and not him. He would sell his soul for it. Unfortunately for him, the wish is granted.</p><p>Through Dorian, Oscar Wilde weaves an unforgettable tale about the punishment of excess and misplaced desire.</p><p>Told in an exquisite blend of the Gothic and the philosophical, this fable about our obsession with the aesthetic unravels a horrifying truth: it is not if, but when and where our sins will manifest.</p><hr><p>The <i>Legend Classics</i> series:<br/>Around the World in Eighty Days<br/>The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn<br/>The Importance of Being Earnest<br/>Alice''s Adventures in Wonderland<br/>The Metamorphosis<br/>The Railway Children<br/>The Hound of the Baskervilles<br/>Frankenstein<br/>Wuthering Heights<br/>Three Men in a Boat<br/>The Time Machine<br/>Little Women<br/>Anne of Green Gables<br/>The Jungle Book<br/>The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories<br/>Dracula<br/>A Study in Scarlet<br/>Leaves of Grass<br/>The Secret Garden<br/>The War of the Worlds<br/>A Christmas Carol<br/>Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde<br/>Heart of Darkness<br/>The Scarlet Letter<br/>This Side of Paradise<br/>Oliver Twist<br/>The Picture of Dorian Gray<br/>Treasure Island<br/>The Turn of the Screw<br/>The Adventures of Tom Sawyer<br/>Emma<br/>The Trial<br/>A Selection of Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe<br/>Grimm Fairy Tales<br/>The Awakening<br/>Mrs Dalloway<br/>Gulliver’s Travels<br/>The Castle of Otranto<br/>Silas Marner<br/>Hard Times</p>