The Picture Of Dorian Gray
Wilde, Oscar . Rupa Publications India . English
This novel was greeted on publication by a chorus of protest at its 'immoral' subject matter. It remains fascinating story about a young man's quest for eternal youth and beauty, a quest that ends in scandal, depravity, and death.
Categories: Fiction
About the Author
Playwright, novelist, poet and epigrammatist, Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854. A self-proclaimed socialist and brilliant classicist, he published his only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray in 1891, followed by witty plays such as A Woman of No Importance (1893). Wilde died in 1905.
