{"product_id":"the-picture-of-dorian-gray-oscar-wilde","title":"The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence.  The novel was a succès de scandale and the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895.  It has lost none of its power to fascinate and disturb.\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 (Hardcover), B-Format, Englisch, 304 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65761429061981,"sku":"K030449203","price":19.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/3044920300001A.jpg?v=1788230958","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/the-picture-of-dorian-gray-oscar-wilde","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}