by Oscar Wilde · Feltrinelli · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788807820113
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«Il ritratto di Dorian Gray» is Oscar Wilde's classic novel, published by Feltrinelli in paperback (264 pages, in Italian).
The novel presents Dorian Gray, a young man of exceptional beauty who, upon contemplating his portrait, wishes to remain young while the painting ages in his place. From then on, his devotion to a life of pleasures and excesses leaves increasingly visible marks on the canvas. A reflection on beauty, morality, and the power of art.
It belongs to the Universale Economica I Classici collection (no. 11), in its 15th edition. Translation by Benedetta Bini and preface by Aldo Busi. Work originally published in 1890.
It will appeal to those seeking an Italian edition of a 19th-century classic on the relationship between art and morality.
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.
