Description

A beautiful young man stays untouched by age while his hidden portrait records every act of corruption.

This beautiful deluxe gift edition presents Oscar Wilde’s decadent Gothic novel in a hardback with foiled covers, marbled endpaper, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and a silk ribbon.

Dorian Gray is young, beautiful and easily enthralled by Lord Henry Wotton’s glittering ideas about pleasure. When Basil Hallward paints his portrait, Dorian wishes that the image might age in his place. The wish comes true. As he drifts through luxury, corruption, cruelty and crime, his face remains untouched while the hidden portrait records every stain on his soul.

The Picture of Dorian Gray is a classic novel about beauty, youth, vanity, temptation and moral decay. This Vintage Collector’s Classics edition is a striking gift for Wilde readers, Gothic fiction fans and collectors seeking a deluxe sprayed-edge classic.

Publisher Review

[A] remarkable work of imagination…A wonderfully entertaining parable of the aesthetic ideal-Guardian

A heady late-Victorian tale of double-living-

There’s an incurable disease afflicting females – ageing. Men, on the other hand, never pass their amuse-by dates. Sean Connery is still cutting the sex god mustard and, if time flies, then HE has frequent air miles. Yet, you never hear a man described as mutton dressed as ram, now do you? This is a book about a bloke who realises that the night is young, but he is not…-

In The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde set the gold standard for chroniclers of decadence-Guardian

very decadent and Victorian-Savidge Reads

Very decadent and Victorian-Savidge Reads