The Picture of Dorian Gray

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(61 61 61 1)>*Student edition *Lightly annotated *The final version of Oscar Wilde's classic with a new introduction by specialist Avishek Parui *Chronology of events and author's life * Reader-friendly.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(61 61 61 1)>The existential complexity of Wilde's novel emerges largely from its uneasy enmeshing of embodied life and fetishized death of stable and changing selves clearly anticipating the more Modernist literary experiments with the sentient self in the works of Woolf and Joyce. Transforming an ancient myth of soul-selling and eternal damnation into a moving and unsettling story of human fantasies fears retribution and redemption </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(61 61 61 1)>The Picture of Dorian Gray </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(61 61 61 1)>richly deserves the prized status of a literary classic that it enjoys today.</span></p><p></p>