The picture of Dorian Gray
By: by Oscar Wilde ; illustrated with engravings by Eugene Dété after Paul Thiriat
Contributors: Dété, Eug. (Eugène), 1848- illustrator; Ward, Lock & Co
Publisher: Wisehouse Classics
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Sweden
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789176371145
Subjects: Conduct of life; Fiction; Portraits; Immortality; Aging; Gothic fiction; Irish Occult fiction; Morale pratique; Romans, nouvelles
Description: THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY is a philosophical novel by the writer Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. The magazine's editor feared the story was indecent, and without Wilde's knowledge, deleted roughly five hundred words before publication. Despite that censorship, The Picture of Dorian Gray offended the moral sensibilities of British book reviewers, some of whom said that Oscar Wilde merited prosecution for violating the laws guarding the public morality. In response, Wilde aggressively defended his novel and art in correspondence wit.