Night Library Editions · The Classics · No. II
The Picture of Dorian Gray
A portrait keeps the years, and the man keeps his face.
Oscar Wilde · 1891 · unabridged
$18.99
Printed to order · ships in about two weeks · shipping added at checkout
Binding
The bookplate inside
Every copy has a plate inside the cover for the owner's name. Printing a name is free. A gift inscription is a message printed above the name, free on the hardcover and $4.49 on the paperback.
- Text
- Complete and unabridged, 1891
- Format
- 6 × 9 in · 211 pages · paperback or hardcover
- Inside
- A bookplate for your name, in the old tradition
- Made
- Printed to order in the USA
- Time
- Allow about two weeks
About this edition
A beautiful young man wishes his portrait could grow old in his place, and it does. While the painting hidden upstairs keeps the record of every year and every sin, Dorian Gray holds on to his perfect face and spends his life chasing pleasure, certain there will be no bill to pay. Oscar Wilde's only novel is wickedly funny, and then quietly devastating. It was too much for readers in 1891. It still has teeth.
The pair
The Picture of Dorian Gray reads by The Lamplit Shelf.
Amber light on old spines; the row you always stop at.
Order any candle with any book and you pay one shipping charge, not two. They come from different makers, so they still arrive as two parcels.
The book as you have set it above, plus the candle.
