The Picture of Dorian Gray

By: Wilde, Oscar

Book Overview

Spellbound before his own portrait, Dorian Gray utters a fateful wish. In exchange for eternal youth he gives his soul, to be corrupted by the malign influence of his mentor, the aesthete and hedonist Lord Henry Wotton. The novel was met with moral outrage by contemporary critics who, dazzled perhaps by Wilde's brilliant style, may have confused the author with his creation, Lord Henry, to whom even Dorian protests, 'You cut life to pieces with your...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0866119981
• ISBN13: 9780866119986
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Playmore Publishers
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 8 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 6