Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray. English Edition
A special edition hardcover embossed with silver foil
'It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances' Lord WottonThe young, naive, and astonishingly beautiful Dorian Gray meets the cynical and hedonistic Lord Wotton, with whom he begins to explore the more pleasurable, less ethical sides of London. While he enjoys a life of sin and excess, his innocent beauty remains untainted, almost as if he'd made a devil's bargain to keep it.Wilde's only novel was considered indecent and corruptive when it was published in 1891 - in particular because of its implied homoeroticism. Today it is renowned one of the most famous Gothic novels, a timeless classic and an inspiration for countless other books and movie adaptations. A special edition hardcover embossed with silver foil.- The most popular irish author in his original writing- 'The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.' Oscar Wilde- 'Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.' Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray- 'Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.' Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray- 'Let us have something iced to drink, something with strawberries in it.' Lord Henry in Dorian Gray
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The young, naive, and astonishingly beautiful Dorian Gray meets the cynical and hedonistic Lord Wotton, with whom he begins to explore the more pleasurable, less ethical sides of London. While he enjoys a life of sin and excess, his innocent beauty remains untainted, almost as if he'd made a devil's bargain to keep it.Wilde's only novel was considered indecent and corruptive when it was published in 1891 - in particular because of its implied homoeroticism. Today it is renowned one of the most famous Gothic novels, a timeless classic and an inspiration for countless other books and movie adaptations. A special edition hardcover embossed with silver foil.
- - The most popular irish author in his original writing- 'The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.' Oscar Wilde- 'Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.' Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray- 'Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.' Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray- 'Let us have something iced to drink, something with strawberries in it.' Lord Henry in Dorian Gray
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Oscar Wilde wurde 1854 in Dublin geboren. Der Vater war Leibarzt der Königin Viktoria, seine extravagante Mutter führte einen intellektuellen Salon nach französischem Muster. Wilde studierte erst am Trinity College in Dublin, dann in Oxford, wo er sich mehr und mehr einem Ästhetizismus zuwandte, den er nicht nur in der Kunst, sondern auch im Leben zum Maß aller Dinge machte. 1884 heiratete er in London; 1885 und 1886 kamen seine beiden Söhne zur Welt. In den folgenden Jahren entfremdete er sich zunehmend von seiner Frau und wurde sich wohl auch seiner homoerotischen Neigungen deutlicher bewusst. Gleichzeitig nahm sein Ruhm stetig zu; in rascher Folge entstanden Essays, sein einziger Roman "Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray", die Märchen, Erzählungen und mehrere Theaterstücke.1895 wurde er wegen seiner Liebesbeziehung zum jungen Lord Alfred Douglas in einen Prozess mit dessen Vater verwickelt, der ihm zum Verhängnis wurde: Wilde wurde zu Zwangsarbeit verurteilt und war nun gesellschaftlich, aber auch künstlerisch mit einem Schlag erledigt. 1897 aus seiner Einzelzelle entlassen, floh er nach Frankreich, unternahm noch einige Reisen in die Schweiz und nach Italien und starb 1900 resigniert in einem Pariser Hotel.
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