by Oscar Wilde · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788496414808
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«El Retrat de Dorian Gray» is the novel by Oscar Wilde, published by Proa edicions in paperback (362 pages, in Catalan).
Dorian Gray, a young man of exceptional beauty, wishes that the portrait painted of him by Basil Hallward would age in his place. Dorian's wish comes true, and he gives in to excess while the canvas reflects his decay. The story, an update of the Faust myth, explores vanity and hypocrisy in Victorian society.
Volume 14 of the Biblioteca Bàsica d'El Periódico collection. The work was originally published in 1890; this Catalan edition is from 2005.
For readers of classics and Gothic fiction, interested in social criticism and the moral dilemmas of the Victorian era.
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in the emerging Aestheticism movement of the late 19th century and is widely regarded as the greatest playwright of the Victorian era. Wilde is best known for his Gothic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), his epigrams, plays and bedtime stories for children, as well as his criminal conviction in 1895 for gross indecency and for practicing homosexual acts.
