A fantasy of a man whose portrait bears the marks of age and debauchery while he retains the outward appearance of serenity and youth.
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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 the new Aesthetic (or 'Art for Art's Sake') Movement.
Despite winning a first and the Newdigate Prize for Poetry, Wilde failed to obtain an Oxford scholarship, and was forced to earn a living by lecturing and writing for periodicals. After his marriage to Constance Lloyd in 1884, he tried to establish himself as a writer, but with little initial success. However, his three volumes of short fiction, The Happy Prince (1888), Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (1891) and A House of Pomegranates (1891), together with his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), gradually won him a reputation as a modern writer with an original talent, a reputation confirmed and enhanced by the phenomenal success of his Society Comedies - Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, all performed on the West End stage between 1892 and 1895.
Success, however, was short-lived. In 1891 Wilde had met and fallen extravagantly in love with Lord Alfred Douglas. In 1895, when his success as a dramatist was at its height, Wilde brought an unsuccessful libel action against Douglas's father, the Marquess of Queensberry. Wilde lost the case and two trials later was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for acts of gross indecency. As a result of this experience he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol. He was released from prison in 1897 and went into an immediate self-imposed exile on the Continent. He died in Paris in ignominy in 1900.
Dorian Gray has just had his portrait painted. It is a perfect likeness of the quite extraordinary beautiful young man, and it prompts him to make a mad wish for eternal youth. In the years to come, he devotes his public life to and aestheticism-and his private one to decadence and debauchery.
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Tapa Blanda. Condición: Bien. Texto en inglés. Tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Sin subrayados ni anotaciones. Perfecto estado de conservación. The tale of a youth whose features, year after year, retain the same appearance of innocent beauty while the shame of his abhorrent vices becomes mirrored on the features of his portrait.\n\n. Libro. Nº de ref. del artículo: 96502
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Condición: Bueno. : Sumérgete en la obra maestra de Oscar Wilde, 'El retrato de Dorian Gray', una novela gótica y filosófica que explora temas de belleza, decadencia y la naturaleza del arte. Dorian Gray, un joven de notable atractivo, desea que su retrato envejezca en su lugar, permitiéndole conservar su juventud eterna. A medida que se entrega a una vida de placer y vicio, su retrato refleja la corrupción de su alma, mientras que él permanece inalterado. Esta edición de Penguin Classics presenta una introducción perspicaz y notas que enriquecen la experiencia de lectura, invitando a la reflexión sobre la moralidad y la estética. EAN: 9780140431872 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Literatura y Ficción Título: The Picture of Dorian Gray Autor: Oscar Wilde Editorial: Penguin Classics Idioma: en Páginas: 272 Formato: libro de bolsillo. Nº de ref. del artículo: Happ-2024-03-27-441fa889
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Condición: Muy bueno. : Sumérgete en la obra maestra de Oscar Wilde, 'El retrato de Dorian Gray', una novela gótica y filosófica que explora temas de belleza, decadencia y la naturaleza del arte. Dorian Gray, un joven de notable atractivo, desea que su retrato envejezca en su lugar, permitiéndole conservar su juventud eterna. A medida que se entrega a una vida de placer y vicio, su retrato refleja la corrupción de su alma, mientras que él permanece inalterado. Esta edición de Penguin Classics presenta una introducción perspicaz y notas que enriquecen la experiencia de lectura, invitando a la reflexión sobre la moralidad y la estética. EAN: 9780140431872 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Literatura y Ficción Título: The Picture of Dorian Gray Autor: Oscar Wilde Editorial: Penguin Classics Idioma: en Páginas: 272 Formato: libro de bolsillo. Nº de ref. del artículo: Happ-2024-05-30-d8a8d9aa
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