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The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Vintage Classics x MADE.COM

FICTION

208 Pages, 5 x 7

Trade Paper, $14.95 (US $14.95)

Publication Date: October 2018

ISBN 9781784874124

Rights: US

Penguin Random House UK (Oct 2018)
Vintage Classics

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Overview

Using their furniture and fabrics as a starting point, MADE.COM have recreated the settings and atmosphere from three of Vintage Classics’s best-loved novels

Dorian is a good-natured young man until he discovers the power of his own exceptional beauty. As he gradually sinks deep into a frivolous, glamorous world of selfish luxury, he apparently remains physically unchanged by the stresses of his corrupt lifestyle and untouched by age. But in a locked room, hidden behind a curtain, his portrait tells a very different story. This stylish edition is a collaboration between Vintage Classics and MADE.COM.

Reviews

"A heady late-Victorian tale of double-living." —Sarah Waters


"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." —Kathy Lette


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


"Very decadent and Victorian." —Savidge Reads

Author Biography

Oscar Wilde's only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, was first published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890. He published a revised and expanded edition in 1891 in response to negative reviews which criticized the book’s immorality. Wilde became famous through the immense success of his plays such as Lady Windemere's Fan, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest.