El Retrato De Dorian Gray / the Picture of Dorian Gray: Edicion Bilingue / Bilingual Edition

Publisher Marketing: En su unica novela, el divino Oscar Wilde puso al dia el mito de Fausto. En este caso, la victima es Dorian Gray, un bello y joven presuntuoso a quien un amigo hace un retrato al oleo. Cuando Dorian trabe amistad con lord Henry Wotton, un cinico filosofo, este le convencera de que sus mas valiosas posesiones son su belleza y su juventud. Y a partir de ahi, su deseo de que su retrato envejezca mientras el permanezca joven se hace realidad. Estamos, simple y llanamente, ante uno de los libros mas bellos e ingeniosos de todos los tiempos. Dorian Gray is the subject of a full-length portrait in oil by Basil Hallward, an artist who is impressed and infatuated by Dorian's beauty; he believes that Dorian's beauty is responsible for the new mode in his art as a painter. Through Basil, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, and he soon is enthralled by the aristocrat's hedonistic worldview: that beauty and sensual fulfilment are the only things worth pursuing in life. Understanding that his beauty will fade, Dorian expresses the desire to sell his soul, to ensure that the picture, rather than he, will age and fade. The wish is granted, and Dorian pursues a libertine life of varied and amoral experiences; all the while his portrait ages and records every soul-corrupting sin. Contributor Bio:  Wilde, Oscar Oscar Wilde was born on October 16, 1854, to the Irish nationalist and writer "Speranza" Wilde and the doctor William Wilde. After graduating from Oxford in 1878, Wilde moved to London, where he became notorious for his sharp wit and flamboyant style of dress. Though he was publishing plays and poems throughout the 1880s, it wasn't until the late 1880s and early 1890s that his work started to be received positively. In 1895, Oscar Wilde was tried for homosexuality and was convicted and sentenced to two years in prison. Tragically, this downfall came at the height of his career, as his plays, An Ideal Husband "and The Importance of Being Earnest, "were playing to full houses in London. He was greatly weakened by the privations of prison life, and moved to Paris after his sentence. Wilde died in a hotel room, either of syphilis or complications from ear surgery, in Paris, on November 30, 1900.