The Picture of Dorian Gray: A Fable of the Painted Soul
Jul 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Odilon Redon, John Atkinson Grimshaw and Johan Christian Dahl. A portrait keeps the marks of a life its subject refuses to carry: the sins, the years, the cruelty. Wilde's only novel was cut by his publisher, attacked as immoral, and read aloud in court at his trial, where the prosecution treated the fiction as a confession. Beneath the epigrams it is a severe book about what a beautiful surface costs. Fifty-nine plates, from Goya to Whistler, trace the painted face and the cost of beauty across a century of portraiture, the perfect visual counterpart to Wilde's fable of the soul made visible.
Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Odilon Redon, John Atkinson Grimshaw and Johan Christian Dahl. A portrait keeps the marks of a life its subject refuses to carry: the sins, the years, the cruelty. Wilde's only novel was cut by his publisher, attacked as immoral, and read aloud...
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Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was an Irish playwright and author. He lived and worked in London, where he wrote for the stage and published fiction and criticism. His works include the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and the short story Lord Arthur Savile's Crime.
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was an Irish playwright and author. He lived and worked in London, where he wrote for the stage and published fiction and criticism. His works include the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and the short story Lord Arthur Savile's Crime.
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