00000nam a2200000 a 4500 Wilde, Oscar aut Verfasser/-in LGBT LGBT / Belletristik The Picture of Dorian Gray Wilde, Oscar London Collins Classics 2013 Collins Classics A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife", Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden." 9780007351053 9780007351053 0007351054 0007351054 eng Band 252 S.