Our store is temporarily closed due to a warehouse move
Our store is temporarily closed due to a warehouse move
Author | Oscar Wilde |
---|---|
Selected by | Dorothea Barrett |
Activities by | Dorothea Barrett |
Language | ENGLISH |
Category | Literature |
Series | Reading Classics |
Genre | Mystery & Horror |
Level | C1/C2 |
Examinations | Advanced, Proficiency |
The publication in 1890 of Wilde’s only novel led to a furious public debate over art and morality. Dorian Gray’s double life in elegant high society and in London’s most degraded slums express the essence of aestheticism and fin de siècle decadence and shows up the hypocrisies of Victorian society.