HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.
''How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrid, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young... If it was only the other way!'' Wilde''s first and only published novel recounts the story of handsome Dorian Gray who upon having his portrait painted desires that it will age and grow ugly while he may remain eternally beautiful. The painting, which reflects each of Gray''s sins and transgressions in its hideousness, haunts him until it finally becomes unbearable. In this dark tale of duplicity and mortality, Wilde creates a world where art and reality collide.
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.
''London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.'' Including some of Oscar Wilde''s most well-known and infamous plays, Lady Windermere''s Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and The Importance of Being Earnest, this collection of the infamous writer''s works displays his brilliant, quick wit to its full glory. Wilde''s pithy social comedies dissect the morals and idiosyncrasies of society in the 1890s and offer a view of the sexual politics of the time.
