英伦才子奥斯卡•王尔德一生中创作的最著名悲剧
一段唯美凄恻、超越时代的《圣经》故事
英国唯美主义作家奥斯卡•王尔德的独幕剧《莎乐美》只是唯美主义作品中的经典。故事取材于《圣经》里莎乐美为希律王跳舞换得施洗者约翰头颅的情节，这一圣经典故被王尔德的妙手挖掘出了最黑暗也最深 刻的内涵。欲望的纠缠，畸恋的爆发，诡异的氛围，都被他在这短短的篇幅里发展到极致。而同时代的早夭天才画家比亚兹莱，亦称得上王尔德恶魔般作品最佳的诠释者。
本书收入了英国著名插画大师比亚兹莱为《莎乐美》创作的多幅插图——被誉为“有史以来诗人和画家最成功的合作之一”。

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.