by Oscar Wilde · Einaudi · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788879831406
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«Il ritratto di Dorian Gray» is Oscar Wilde's gothic novel, published by Einaudi in paperback (246 pages, in Italian).
The story centres on Dorian Gray, a young man whose beauty is immortalised in a portrait. While he keeps his appearance intact, it is the canvas that ages and reflects the signs of a life of pleasure and excess. The novel explores vanity, hedonism and the weight of conscience.
The work was originally published in 1890; this edition includes an introduction by Cesare Milanese, a translation by Emanuele Grazzi and the complete text.
For readers of nineteenth-century classics and gothic novels with a moral undertone.
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.
