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The Picture of Dorian Gray (eBook, ePUB) - Wilde, Oscar
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Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author's most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused a scandal when it first appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel's corrupting influence, he responded that there is, in fact, "a terrible moral in Dorian Gray." Just a few years later, the book and the aesthetic/moral dilemma it presented became issues in the trials occasioned by Wilde's homosexual liaisons, which resulted in his imprisonment. Of…mehr

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Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author's most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused a scandal when it first appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel's corrupting influence, he responded that there is, in fact, "a terrible moral in Dorian Gray." Just a few years later, the book and the aesthetic/moral dilemma it presented became issues in the trials occasioned by Wilde's homosexual liaisons, which resulted in his imprisonment. Of Dorian Gray's relationship to 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."

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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.