Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 02/08/2007
ISBN: 9780099511144
Length: 208 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 13mm x 129mm
Weight: 149g
RRP: £5.99
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY IRVINE WELSH
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...
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 02/08/2007
ISBN: 9780099511144
Length: 208 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 13mm x 129mm
Weight: 149g
RRP: £5.99
[A] remarkable work of imagination...A wonderfully entertaining parable of the aesthetic ideal
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
Very decadent and Victorian