{"product_id":"the-picture-of-dorian-gray-1","title":"The Picture of Dorian Gray","description":"                                            Beautifully designed, clothbound edition\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence.  The novel was a succ s de scandale and the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895.  It has lost none of its power to fascinate and disturb.\u003cbr\u003eBorn in Ireland, Wilde (1854-1900) was educated in Dublin and Oxford and became the leading exponent of aestheticism. His work includes plays, a novel, poetry and criticism. Imprisoned for homosexual acts, he died after his release in exile in Paris.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert Mighall has written on Gothic fiction and is the editor of Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde for Penguin Classics.\r\n                                        ","brand":"The Picture of Dorian Gray","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42283470356671,"sku":"9780141442464","price":36.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/1689\/8751\/products\/qh-0bBWnNSMkPaCIA0TMlIKfdluHdgodgzMg_q6N-oqRnA_60_60.jpg?v=1679026589","url":"https:\/\/www.popweasel.co.nz\/products\/the-picture-of-dorian-gray-1","provider":"Pop Weasel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}