Portrait of Dorian Gray and other works in one volume

The book contains selected works of Oscar Wilde in various genres. The central place is occupied by the scandalously famous novel "Portrait of Dorian Gray", which has become the hallmark of Wilde. Oscar Wilde loved to shock the Victorian public - and prepared the fate of his most scandalous play with Salome. The reason for the ban on the production was a biblical topic, but also an unconventional combination of religion with eroticism, and foreign language (written in French) worked against the play.
The story "Kenterville Ghost" is a parody of Gothic literature, a satire on society with a share of romance. Tales of several cycles, called the author himself "sketches in prose, for which the form of fantasy is chosen." These fascinating stories reveal the reader of another Wilde - the creator of sophisticated philosophical allegories about beauty and love, about good and evil, about life and death.
also included "de Profundis. Prison Confession ", the poem of" Ballad of the Rading prison "and poems