Dorian Gray is having his picture painted by Basil Hallward who is charmed by his looks But when Sir Henry Wotton visits & seduces Dorian into the worship of youthful beauty with an intoxicating speech Dorian makes a wish he will live to regret that all the marks of age will now be reflected in the portrait rather than on Dorian's own face The stage is now set for a masterful tale about appearance reality art life truth fiction & the ultimate burden of conscience ...

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable & collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth & beauty Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence The novel was a succes de scandale & the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895 It has lost none of its power to fascinate & disturb ...

With an Introduction & Notes by John ML Drew University of Buckingham Wilde's only novel first published in 1890 is a brilliantly designed puzzle intended to tease conventional minds with its exploration of the myriad interrelationships between art life & consequence From its provocative Preface challenging the reader to believe in 'art for art's sake' to its sensational conclusion the story self-consciously experiments with the notion of sin as an element of design Yet Wilde himself underestimated the consequences of his experiment & its capacity to outrage the Victorian establishment Its words returned to haunt him in his court appearances in 1895 & he later recalled the 'note of doom' which runs like 'a violet thread' through its carefully crafted prose ...

Oscar Wilde's tale of a Faustian pact in Victorian England The Picture of Dorian Gray is a both a slow-burning Gothic horror & a brilliant philosophical investigation of youth beauty & desire This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction & notes by Robert Mighall Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth & beauty Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence The Picture of Dorian Gray was a succes de scandale Early readers were shocked by its hints at unspeakable sins & the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895 It has lost none of its power to fascinate & disturb This definitive edition

Includes:: a selection of contemporary reviews condemning the novels immorality & the introduction to the first Penguin Classics edition by Peter Ackroyd Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) son of an eminent eye-surgeon & a nationalist poet was educated in Dublin & Oxford & became the leading exponent of the new Aesthetic Movement His work including short fiction such The Happy Price (1888) his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) gradually won him a reputation which was cemented by his phenomenally successful plays including A Woman of No Importance (1893) An Ideal Husband (1895) & The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) Imprisoned for homosexual acts he died after his release in exile in Paris If you enjoyed The Picture of Dorian Gray you might like Joris-Karl Huysmans' Against Nature (A Rebours) Wilde's real-life inspiration for the novel that slowly corrupts Dorian Gray also available in Penguin Classics

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY IRVINE WELSHDorian is a good-natured young man until he discovers the power of his own exceptional beauty As he gradually sinks deep into a frivolous glamorous world of selfish luxury he apparently remains physically unchanged by the stresses of his corrupt lifestyle & untouched by age But up in his attic hidden behind a curtain his portrait tells a different story ...

Artists The Picturebooks Label Century Media Format Vinyl 12 Album Running Time Vinyl 12 Album Number of Disks Vinyl 12 Album Tracks 1 Seen Those Days 2 Wardance 3 Home Is a Heartache 4 Fire Keeps Burning 5 On These Roads I'll Die 6 I Need That Oooh 7 The Murderer 8 Zero Fucks Given 9 Cactus 10 I Came a Long Way for You 11 Get Gone 12 Bad Habits Die Hard 13 Heathen Love 14 Inner Demons ...

Shortlisted for the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award 2017 World-weary Jonathan Craine is a detective at the LAPD who has spent his entire career as a studio fixer' covering up crimes of the studio players to protect the billion-dollar industry that built Los Angeles When one of the producers of The Wizard of Oz is found dead under suspicious circumstances Craine must make sure the incident passes without scandal & that the deceased's widow the beautiful starlet Gale Goodwin comes through the ordeal with her reputation unscathed But against his better instincts Craine finds himself increasingly drawn to Gale & when a series of unsavoury truths begin to surface Craine finds himself at the centre of a conspiracy involving a Chicago crime syndicate a prostitution racket & a set of stolen pictures that could hold the key to unravelling the mystery ...

Shortlisted for the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award 2017 World-weary Jonathan Craine is a detective at the LAPD who has spent his entire career as a studio fixer' covering up crimes of the studio players to protect the billion-dollar industry that built Los Angeles When one of the producers of The Wizard of Oz is found dead under suspicious circumstances Craine must make sure the incident passes without scandal & that the deceased's widow the beautiful starlet Gale Goodwin comes through the ordeal with her reputation unscathed But against his better instincts Craine finds himself increasingly drawn to Gale & when a series of unsavoury truths begin to surface Craine finds himself at the centre of a conspiracy involving a Chicago crime syndicate a prostitution racket & a set of stolen pictures that could hold the key to unravelling the mystery ...

Factory mine & mill Industry toil & grime Its manufacturing roots mean we still see the North of England as a hardworking place But more than possibly anywhere else the North has always known how to get dressed up take itself out on the town & have a good time After all working & playing hard is its specialty & Stuart Maconie is in search of what exactly this entails what it tells us about the North today Following tip offs & rumour Stuart takes trip to forgotten corners & locals' haunts From the tapas bars of Halifax to the caravan parks of Berwick Upon Tweed from a Westhoughton bowling green to Manchester's curry mile via dog tracks & art galleries dance floors & high fells Stuart compares the new & old North with some surprising results The Pie at Night could be seen as a companion to the bestselling Pies & Prejudice but it is not a sequel After all this is a new decade & the North is changing faster than ever This is a revealing & digressive journey & a State of the North address delivered from barstool terrace dress circle & hillside ...

A beautiful edition of this classic retelling by master storyteller Michael Morpurgo with glorious illustrations by Emma Chichester Clark In the town of Hamelin the rich & greedy live like kings & queens while the poor & sick scavenge rubbish tips for scraps A lame orphan boy tells the classic tale of how a plague of rats takes over the town & how a fantastic piper offers to rid Hamelin of its rats for a single gold coin then lures away the town's children when the greedy mayor breaks his word Masterfully weaving contemporary social & environmental themes into a gripping tale & celebrating it with breath-taking illustrations former British Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo & illustrator Emma Chichester Clark team up to create a compelling new take on this timeless story ...