{"product_id":"the-picture-of-dorian-gray","title":"The Picture of Dorian Gray","description":"                                            \u003cb\u003eThe new paperback series- Penguin English Library\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Penguin English Library Edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Picture of Dorian Gray \u003c\/i\u003eby Oscar Wilde\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me ... Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day - mock me horribly!'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA story of evil, debauchery and scandal, Oscar Wilde's only novel tells of Dorian Gray, a beautiful yet corrupt man. When he wishes that a perfect portrait of himself would bear the signs of ageing in his place, the picture becomes his hideous secret, as it follows Dorian's own downward spiral into cruelty and depravity. \u003ci\u003eThe Picture of Dorian Gray\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterpiece of the evil in men's hearts, and is as controversial and alluring as Wilde himself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.\u003cbr\u003eOscar Wilde was born in Ireland in 1854 and educated in Dublin and Oxford. He became the leading exponent of aestheticism and a famous wit, intellectual and raconteur. He wrote children's stories, poetry, philosophical essays and several hugely popular plays, but \u003ci\u003eThe Picture of Dorian Gray \u003c\/i\u003ewas his only novel. The book was a \u003ci\u003esucc s de scandale\u003c\/i\u003e, and later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895, when he was tried and imprisoned for homosexual acts. Wilde died in 1900 in exile in Paris.\r\n                                        ","brand":"The Picture of Dorian Gray","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42283467276479,"sku":"9780141199498","price":21.6,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/1689\/8751\/products\/k5SXhG-tYdIWL7EWuclLv-0dIvYI6GiQTNHRoR8KToeLHA_60_60.jpg?v=1679026231","url":"https:\/\/www.popweasel.co.nz\/products\/the-picture-of-dorian-gray","provider":"Pop Weasel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}