Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Cover: 9781454952947 | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde | Buch | Englisch | 2023

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Beschreibung

When handsome young Dorian Gray sees a painter's stunning portrait of him, he is transfixed by its reflection of his own beauty. He is also troubled by the knowledge that the image in the painting will remain forever youthful and handsome while he himself will grow older and less desirable. He wishes aloud that the roles were reversed, saying that he would give his soul if only the painting would suffer the ravages of time and he were to remain forever young. From that point on, Dorian lives a life of hedonistic indulgence, knowing that only the painting will show his moral corruption.

Über den Autor

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, also known as Oscar Wilde, was an Irish poet and playwright who lived from 16 October 1854 to 30 November 1900. He wrote in a variety of genres throughout the 1880s before becoming one of London's most well-known playwrights in the early 1890s. The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays and epigrams, as well as the circumstances surrounding his meningitis-related early death at age 46 and criminal conviction for gross indecency for consensual homosexual activities in "one of the earliest celebrity trials," is what people will remember him for most. Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin, Wilde's parents were. French and German were picked up by young Wilde with ease. While in college, Wilde read the Greats and distinguished himself as an outstanding student of classical literature, first at Trinity College Dublin and then at Oxford. He became involved with the aestheticism movement, which was being spearheaded by two of his professors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. Wilde moved to London after finishing college and became a part of rich social and cultural circles. Queensberry intended to publicly humiliate Wilde by tossing a bouquet of decaying vegetables onto the stage, but Wilde was informed and had Queensberry turned away from the theater.

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Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Genre:	Importe , Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Buch
ISBN-13:	9781454952947
ISBN-10:	1454952946
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Wilde, Oscar
Hersteller:	Union Square & Co.
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	182 x 123 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Oscar Wilde
Erscheinungsdatum:	19.12.2023
Gewicht:	0,308 kg

Artikel-ID: 126795671

Über den Autor

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Genre:	Importe , Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Buch
ISBN-13:	9781454952947
ISBN-10:	1454952946
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Wilde, Oscar
Hersteller:	Union Square & Co.
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	182 x 123 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Oscar Wilde
Erscheinungsdatum:	19.12.2023
Gewicht:	0,308 kg