El Retrato de Dorian Gray Paperback - 2016
by Oscar Wilde
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Los mejores libros jamas escritos.
-La vida te lo reserva todo, Dorian. Con tu extraordinario atractivo, no hay nada que no puedas conseguir.-Basil Hallward habia terminado el retrato. El joven Dorian, al verlo, no pudo mas que desear, desde su frivola inocencia, que fuera su imagen la que envejeciera y se corrompiera con el paso de los anos mientras el permanecia intacto. Y asi fue: a partir de entonces, Dorian Gray conservo no solo la lozania y la hermosura propias de la juventud, sino el aspecto puro de los inocentes. Pero a que precio?
"El retrato de Dorian Gray" es un logro insoslayable de la literatura universal, vertido aqui magnificamente por el escritor y traductor Alejandro Palomas. Asimismo, el presente volumen adiciona un esplendido estudio introductorio, firmado por el reputado investigador y autor Robert Mighall. Luis Antonio de Villena dijo...
-Un libro lleno de fascinacion y encanto, facil y dificil a la vez, y cuyo unico protagonista y tema esencial es la belleza. Una de las pasiones que hacen vivir y dan sentido y fuerza al mundo.- ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works. Written in Wilde's characteristically dazzling manner, full of stinging epigrams and shrewd observations, the tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused something of a scandal when it first appeared in 1890. Wilde was attacked for his decadence and corrupting influence, and a few years later the book and the aesthetic/moral dilemma it presented became issues in the trials occasioned by Wilde's homosexual liaisons, trials that resulted in his imprisonment. Of the book's value as autobiography, Wilde noted in a letter, "Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be--in other ages, perhaps." Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (October 16, 1854 November 30, 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and short story writer. Known for his barbed wit, he was one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day. As the result of a famous trial, he suffered a dramatic downfall and was imprisoned for two years of hard labour after being convicted of the offence of "gross indecency." The scholar H. Montgomery Hyde suggests this term implies homosexual acts not amounting to buggery in British legislation of the time."
Details
- Title El Retrato de Dorian Gray
- Author Oscar Wilde
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 152
- Volumes 1
- Language SPA
- Publisher Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Date 2016-08
- ISBN 9781536983999 / 1536983993
- Weight 0.47 lbs (0.21 kg)
- Dimensions 9.02 x 5.98 x 0.33 in (22.91 x 15.19 x 0.84 cm)
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