Picture of Dorian Gray (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions) e-bog

Horror hides behind an attractive face in The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wildes tale of a notorious Victorian libertine and his life of evil excesses. Though Dorians hedonistic indulgences leave no blemish on his ageless features, the painted portrait imbued with his soul proves a living catalogue of corruption, revealing in its every new line and lesionthe manifold sins he has committed. Desperate to hide the physical evidence of his unregenerate spirit, Dorian will stop at nothing--not even murder--to keep his pictures existence a secret.A scandalous story when it was first published in 1890, Wildes novel is acknowledged a landmark of literature today and a tale emblematic of its time.