Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde’s story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author’s most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray’s moral disintegration caused a scandal when it first appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel’s corrupting influence, he responded that there is, in fact, “a terrible moral in Dorian Gray.” Just a few years later, the book and the aesthetic/moral dilemma it presented became issues in the trials occasioned by Wilde’s homosexual liaisons, which resulted in his imprisonment. Of Dorian Gray’s relationship to autobiography, Wilde noted in a letter, “Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be—in other ages, perhaps.”

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Dorian Gray is having his picture painted by Basil Hallward, who is charmed by his looks. But when Sir Henry Wotton visits and seduces Dorian into the worship of youthful beauty with an intoxicating speech, Dorian makes a wish he will live to regret: that all the marks of age will now be reflected in the portrait rather than on Dorian’s own face. The stage is now set for a masterful tale about appearance, reality, art, life, truth, fiction and the burden of conscience.
Oscar Wilde’s only full-length novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray is a lasting gem of sophisticated wit and playfulness, which brings together all the best elements of his talent in a reinterpretation of the Faustian myth.
This edition contains an extensive critical apparatus, extra reading material including a section of photographs and notes.

Cette pièce d'Oscar Wilde accompagnée des dessins d'Aubrey Beardsley a fait scandale lorsqu'elle est parue en France et en français en 1893. Elle a été interdite en Angleterre jusqu'en 1931.
Le thème de Salomé, qui dansa la danse des sept voiles devant son beau-père Hérode afin d'obtenir la tête de saint Jean-Baptiste pour sa mère Hérodiade, se retrouve chez bien des artistes de l'époque, depuis Flaubert jusqu'à Mallarmé en passant par Gustave Moreau.
Oscar Wilde et son illustrateur, deux dandys et deux esthètes, campent un personnage de femme fatale et sensuelle face à un Ioakanaan (Jean Baptiste) austère et désincarné.
Ce texte et ces illustrations, qui ont servi de base à un opéra de Richard Strauss et inspiré, entre autres, Peter Brook et Ken Russell, n'avaient pas été réédités ensemble depuis longtemps.

These fairy tales, which Oscar Wilde made up for his own sons, include “The Happy Prince,” who was not as happy as he seemed, “The Selfish Giant,” who learned to love little children, and “The Star Child,” who suffered bitter trials when he rejected his parents. Often whimsical and sometimes sad, they all shine with poetry and magic.

本書由2015波隆納入選畫家 Maisie Paradise Shearring 插畫，線條簡單、寫意，色鉛筆粗曠的線條詮釋角落的陰暗，和王子傷心暗舊的臉龐。另外，在燕子代替王子看世界，讀者可以看到巴西里約的基督像、馬雅古城、萬里長城……旁邊還有一台相機，非常新穎的詮釋。

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《王尔德诗选》精选王尔等经典诗歌，如《从春天到冬季》《我记忆中的娇女》《真正的知识》《进入意大利的十四行诗》《旅途感怀》《玫瑰和芸香》等，王尔德的诗歌充满热情、美感、智性和艺术气息，从中我们可以品读和体味出诗人的“唯美而感受、唯美而创作、唯美而发抒、唯美而生活”。

This is the only edition available that includes both the 1890 Lippincott's and the 1891 book versions of "The Picture of Dorian Gray". The backgrounds, and reviews and reactions sections allow readers to gauge the novel's sensational reception and to consider heated public debate that the novel's publication engendered. "Criticism" includes seven new essays on the novel. A bibliography is also included.