Picture of Dorian Gray

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Oscar Wilde's decadent and disturbing novel of youth, beauty and corruption, complete with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.

Dorian is a good-natured young man until he discovers the power of his own exceptional beauty. As he gradually sinks deep into a frivolous, glamorous world of selfish luxury, he apparently remains physically unchanged by the stresses of his corrupt lifestyle and untouched by age. But up in his attic, hidden behind a curtain, his portrait tells a different story...

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Review: [A] remarkable work of imagination...A wonderfully entertaining parable of the aesthetic ideal-Guardian

A heady late-Victorian tale of double-living-

There's an incurable disease afflicting females - ageing. Men, on the other hand, never pass their amuse-by dates. Sean Connery is still cutting the sex god mustard and, if time flies, then HE has frequent air miles. Yet, you never hear a man described as mutton dressed as ram, now do you? This is a book about a bloke who realises that the night is young, but he is not...-

In The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde set the gold standard for chroniclers of decadence-Guardian

very decadent and Victorian-Savidge Reads

Very decadent and Victorian-Savidge Reads