The Picture of Dorian Gray -- Oscar Wilde

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence. The novel was a succ s de scandale and the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895. It has lost none of its power to fascinate and disturb.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Oscar Wilde<br><b>Publisher:</b> Penguin Group<br><b>Published:</b> 10/01/2009<br><b>Pages:</b> 304<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Hardcover<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.91lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 7.84h x 5.38w x 1.09d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780141442464<br><b>Age Range:</b> 18-UP<br><br><b>Accelerated Reader:</b><br><b>Reading Level:</b> 7.7<br><b>Point Value:</b> 14<br><b>Interest Level:</b> Upper Grade<br><b>Quiz #/Name: </b>8668 / Picture of Dorian Gray<br><br><br><b>Review Citation(s): </b><br><i>Entertainment Weekly</i> 12/11/2009 pg. 119<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854. He went to Trinity College, Dublin and then to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he began to propagandize t