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Penny Dreadful Multipack (Illustrated): Dorian Gray, Vileroy, Jack Harkaway and Dracula's Guest (Penny Dreadful Multipacks Book 2)
Bracebridge Hemyng, Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, Thomas Peckett Prest
ASIN: B00HCFHTLO
Publisher: Enhanced Ebooks
Pages: 666

The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vileroy or The Horrors of Zindorf Castle, Jack Harkaway and His Son's Adventures in Australia, and Dracula's Guest. The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde, appearing as the lead story in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine on 20 June 1890, printed as the July 1890 issue. The magazine's editors feared the story was indecent as submitted, so they censored roughly 500 words, without Wilde's knowledge, before publication. However, even with that, the story was still greeted with outrage by British reviewers, some of whom suggested that Wilde should be prosecuted on moral grounds, leading Wilde to defend the novel aggressively in letters to the British press. Today, Wilde's fin de siècle novella is considered a classic. It is presented here with illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, Wilde's one-time friend with whom he fell out over Salome. ...
Amazon Rating:
5 stars from 19 ratings