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01665aam a2200241Ii 4500 001 EF827F94BA1211E79944563497128E48 003 SILO 005 20171026010012 008 170504s2017 enk e 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1509827838 020 $a 9781509827831 035 $a (OCoLC)985427412 040 $a SINLB $b eng $e rda $c SINLB $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d H7H $d OCLCF $d SILO 100 1 $a Wilde, Oscar, $d 1854-1900, $e author. 245 14 $a The picture of Dorian Gray / $c Oscar Wilde ; with an afterward by Peter Harness. 264 1 $a London : $b Macmillan Collector's Library, $c 2017. 300 $a 288 pages ; $c 16 cm 520 $a Dorian Gray is young, arrogant, and devastatingly handsome. Confronted by his beauty in the form of a portrait, and struck by the terrible realization that he will age, Dorian wishes to retain his charms forever and finds his desire granted. He abandons himself to a life of hedonism, vice and murder, yet his face remains unmarked by his evil. But, hidden in his attic, the painting ages and corrupts, and one day Dorian must stand face to face with the man he has become.A perfect depiction of fin-de-sie?cle decadence, Oscar Wilde's only novel highlights the tension between the polished surface and murky depths of Victorian high society.This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray features an afterword by the playwright and actor Peter Harness. 700 1 $a Harness, Peter, $e author of afterword, colophon, etc. 941 $a 2 952 $l FYPI314 $d 20190704011149.0 952 $l CYPF706 $d 20171026010138.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EF827F94BA1211E79944563497128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search