The Picture of Dorian Gray

Resumen del libro

Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence.

The novel was a success de scandale and the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895. It has lost none of its power to fascinate and disturb.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Oscar Wildex{0026}lt;/B (1854-1900) fue un escritor, poeta y dramaturgo británico, famoso por su habitual ingenio y sarcasmo social. Es en Londres donde empieza a producir sus primeras obras de éxito, como su reconocida novela x{0026}lt;I El retrato de Dorian Grayx{0026}lt;/I (1890) o, en teatro, x{0026}lt;I El abanico de Lady Windermerx{0026}lt;/I (1892), x{0026}lt;I Salomé x{0026}lt;/I (1894) -que fue censurada por retratar personajes bíblicos-, o x{0026}lt;I La importancia de llamarse Ernestox{0026}lt;/I (1895), divertida comedia que ha sido llevada al cine en diversas ocasiones. Entre los años 1887-1889 editó la revista femenina x{0026}lt;I Woman's Worldx{0026}lt;/I .x{0026}lt;/P