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Basil, an artist strongly impressed by the beauty of a young man named Dorian Gray, paints his portrait. Realizing that one day his beauty will fade, Dorian wishes to always be the age he was when Basil painted him in the picture. While he forever maintains the same appearance, the portrayed figure ages for him. His quest for pleasure leads him to a series of acts of lust; but the portrait serves as a reminder of the effects on his soul, where the portrait reflects the burden of his aging and his sins. The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only novel written by Wilde. Publication of the novel…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
Basil, an artist strongly impressed by the beauty of a young man named Dorian Gray, paints his portrait. Realizing that one day his beauty will fade, Dorian wishes to always be the age he was when Basil painted him in the picture. While he forever maintains the same appearance, the portrayed figure ages for him. His quest for pleasure leads him to a series of acts of lust; but the portrait serves as a reminder of the effects on his soul, where the portrait reflects the burden of his aging and his sins. The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only novel written by Wilde. Publication of the novel scandalized Victorian England, and it was used as evidence against Wilde when he was tried and convicted in 1895 on charges related to homosexuality. The novel became a classic of English literature and was adapted into a number of films.
Autorenporträt
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for gross indecency for consensual homosexual acts in "one of the first celebrity trials", imprisonment, and early death from meningitis at age 46.