{"product_id":"the-picture-of-dorian-gray-oscar-wilde-9780141199498","title":"The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Penguin English Library Edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Picture of Dorian Gray \u003c\/i\u003eby Oscar Wilde\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'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!'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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 of ageing in his place, the picture becomes his hideous secret, as it follows Dorian's own downward spiral into cruelty and depravity. \u003ci\u003eThe Picture of Dorian Gray\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterpiece of the evil in men's hearts, and is as controversial and alluring as Wilde himself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eOscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854. He went to Trinity College, Dublin and then to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he began to propagandize the new Aesthetic (or 'Art for Art's Sake') Movement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDespite winning a first and the Newdigate Prize for Poetry, Wilde failed to obtain an Oxford scholarship, and was forced to earn a living by lecturing and writing for periodicals. After his marriage to Constance Lloyd in 1884, he tried to establish himself as a writer, but with little initial success. However, his three volumes of short fiction, \u003ci\u003eThe Happy Prince\u003c\/i\u003e (1888), \u003ci\u003eLord Arthur Savile's Crime\u003c\/i\u003e (1891) and \u003ci\u003eA House of Pomegranates\u003c\/i\u003e (1891), together with his only novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Picture of Dorian Gray\u003c\/i\u003e (1891), gradually won him a reputation as a modern writer with an original talent, a reputation confirmed and enhanced by the phenomenal success of his Society Comedies - \u003ci\u003eLady Windermere's Fan\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Woman of No Importance\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAn Ideal Husband\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Importance of Being Earnest\u003c\/i\u003e, all performed on the West End stage between 1892 and 1895.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuccess, however, was short-lived. In 1891 Wilde had met and fallen extravagantly in love with Lord Alfred Douglas. In 1895, when his success as a dramatist was at its height, Wilde brought an unsuccessful libel action against Douglas's father, the Marquess of Queensberry. Wilde lost the case and two trials later was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for acts of gross indecency. As a result of this experience he wrote \u003ci\u003eThe Ballad of Reading Gaol\u003c\/i\u003e. He was released from prison in 1897 and went into an immediate self-imposed exile on the Continent. He died in Paris in ignominy in 1900.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-format, Englisch, 256 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65922317812061,"sku":"K032446376","price":9.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/3244637600001A.jpg?v=1789412496","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/the-picture-of-dorian-gray-oscar-wilde-9780141199498","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}