
Picture of Dorian Gray
With an essay by Peter Ackroyd.
''I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me ... Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day - mock me horribly!''
A story of evil, debauchery and scandal, Oscar Wilde''s only novel tells of Dorian Gray, a beautiful yet corrupt man. When he wishes that a perfect portrait of himself would bear the signs ...
With an essay by Peter Ackroyd.
''I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me ... Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day - mock me horribly!''
A story of evil, debauchery and scandal, Oscar Wilde''s only novel tells of Dorian Gray, a beautiful yet corrupt man. When he wishes that a perfect portrait of himself would bear the signs ...