The Picture of Dorian Gray (Annotated)

The Picture of Dorian Gray (Annotated)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-Dorian Gray's portrait is a work written by Oscar Wilde, who was born in 1954 in the United Kingdom and died in 1900 in Paris.He was influenced by decadentism, which was an artistic, philosophical and literary trend that was based mainly on demonstrating the dissatisfaction of the social life of the time, this current arises in France, country in which Wilde lived for a time.During his life he was accused by a homosexual duchess, which is why he had to spend a few years in prison.Taking the literary work to my context we can find several examples that in today's society, would not look so bad or qualify the actions of the characters as rare.The first example would be when Basil tells Lord Henry everything Dorian Gray means to him, the source of inspiration for his works, especially that of the portrait he was doing besides telling him how great the boy was, how he had shocked from the first moment I met him, this in my context might seem that Basil was in love with Dorian Gray and was fascinated with him, in addition to the affection he felt for him was not normal, because he spoke wonders of him as If he were someone perfect,

Book information

ISBN: 9798735813194
Publisher: Independently Published
Imprint: Independently Published
Pub date:
DEWEY: 981.34
Language: English
Number of pages: 268
Weight: 535g
Height: 254mm
Width: 203mm
Spine width: 14mm