The Picture Of Dorian Gray (Barnes & Noble Signature Editions)

A Barnes & Noble Signature Editions hardcover, first printing, in new condition. Boards are clean, bright, and square with absolutely no wear to the spine, corners, or edges. Dust jacket is crisp, bright, and undamaged with no tears, chips, fading, or soiling. Pages are fresh and clean throughout, completely free of any marks, stamps, annotations, or turned corners. Binding is firm and tight. A pristine, wholly unread copy in new condition throughout. Published by Barnes & Noble Signature Editions (Sterling Publishing Co.) in 2012, this first printing hardcover presents Oscar Wilde's only novel in a handsome collector's edition complete with a new introduction, chapter annotations, and a further reading section. The Picture of Dorian Gray was first serialised in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890 and published in revised book form in 1891. The novel follows Dorian Gray, a beautiful young man in fin-de-siècle London whose portrait, painted by the artist Basil Hallward, ages and records his moral corruption in his stead, leaving him free to pursue a life of sensual pleasure and aesthetic excess under the influence of the witty and cynical Lord Henry Wotton. A meditation on beauty, conscience, and the corrupting nature of influence, it remains one of the most widely read works of Victorian fiction and a central text of the Aesthetic movement. A fine, unread copy of an attractive edition. Ships within Canada. International orders welcome through AbeBooks.