The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde - Hardcover

Responding in 1894 to a letter from an admirer of The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), Oscar Wilde wrote, "I am so glad you like that strange coloured book of mine: it contains much of me in it. Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks of me: Dorian what I would like to be-in other ages, perhaps." And if, as Wilde claimed in the preface to Dorian Gray, that "to reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim," the novel goes wide of the mark, for neither he nor his beliefs is very well concealed in it. When a student at Oxford, Wilde fell under the sway of aestheticism, a philosophy that loosely makes a religion of beauty. Basil, Lord Henry, and Dorian all follow this creed, with particularly unfortunate results.Wilde, Oscar is the author of 'The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde - Hardcover' with ISBN 9781587260841 and ISBN 1587260840.