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Title: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Author name: Oscar Wilde (Introduction and Notes by John M.L. Drew)

ISBN: 9781853260155

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions

Publication year: 1992

Publication month: 5

Publication day: 5

Page count: 224

Format: Paperback

Description: Wilde’s only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with its exploration of the myriad interrelationships between art, life, and consequence. From its provocative Preface, challenging the reader to believe in ‘art for art’s sake’, to its sensational conclusion, the story self-consciously experiments with the notion of sin as an element of design.

Yet Wilde himself underestimated the consequences of his experiment, and its capacity to outrage the Victorian establishment. Its words returned to haunt him in his court appearances in 1895, and he later recalled the ‘note of doom’ which runs like ‘a purple thread’ through its carefully crafted prose.

Link to Amazon listing: https://www.amazon.com/Picture-Dorian...

Please don't tell me again that this ISBN already exists, I know that, I had requested this as an alternate cover but was told to do it like this.
Thank you.

Alternate cover edition added.