The Picture of Dorian Gray (eBook, ePUB) - Wilde, Oscar
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Dorian Gray is the subject of a full-length portrait in oil by Basil Hallward, an artist impressed and infatuated by Dorian's beauty; he believes that Dorian's beauty is responsible for the new mood in his art as a painter. Through Basil, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, and he soon is enthralled by the aristocrat's hedonistic world view: that beauty and sensual fulfilment are the only things worth pursuing in life. Newly 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…mehr

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Dorian Gray is the subject of a full-length portrait in oil by Basil Hallward, an artist impressed and infatuated by Dorian's beauty; he believes that Dorian's beauty is responsible for the new mood in his art as a painter. Through Basil, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, and he soon is enthralled by the aristocrat's hedonistic world view: that beauty and sensual fulfilment are the only things worth pursuing in life. Newly 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 amoral experiences while staying young and beautiful; all the while, his portrait ages and records every sin.

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Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde), est un écrivain britannique d'origine irlandaise, né à Dublin le 16 octobre 1854 et mort à Paris le 30 novembre 1900 à l'âge de 46 ans. En 1895, le marquis de Queenberry, père de lord Alfred Douglas qui est l'amant de Wilde, dénonce publiquement l'homosexualité de Wilde. Wilde lui fait trois procès en diffamation qu'il perd. Il est condamné pour « grave immoralité » à une peine et de deux ans de travaux forcés à la prison de Reading (sud de l'Angleterre). Ruiné, abandonné par tous ceux qui lui faisaient la fête, Wilde écrit alors Ballade de la geôle de Reading (1898). Après avoir purgé sa peine, il quitte le Royaume-Uni et s'exile à Paris. Malgré l'aide matérielle de ses amis (dont André Gide), il meurt en 1900, dans le dénuement le plus total.
Oscar Wilde