Oscar Wilde's The picture of Dorian Gray: a graphic novel
by Oscar Wilde (Author) 
, I.N.J. Culbard (Illustrator), Ian Edginton (Adapter)
Illustrated Classics Graphic Novels (Wilde)
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"If it was I who was to be forever young and the picture that was to grow old! There is nothing in the world I would not give. I would give my soul for that"--P. [4] of cover.Tags
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I love Oscar Wilde and all his writing, but I don't think Edginton and Culbard add much to his novel. I was hoping for a graphic novel with wonderful illustrations and writing that captures the intent of Wilde. Instead, the graphics are fairly simplistic and the writing is just average. This is worth reading if you are an avid Oscar Wilde fan, but keep expectations to a minimum.
Very Marc Hempel / Teddy Kristiansen -like art from Culbard - not my cup of tea, but readable.
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Flamboyant man-about-town, Oscar Wilde had a reputation that preceded him, especially in his early career. He was born to a middle-class Irish family (his father was a surgeon) and was trained as a scholarship boy at Trinity College, Dublin. He subsequently won a scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was heavily influenced by John show more Ruskin and Walter Pater, whose aestheticism was taken to its radical extreme in Wilde's work. By 1879 he was already known as a wit and a dandy; soon after, in fact, he was satirized in Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience. Largely on the strength of his public persona, Wilde undertook a lecture tour to the United States in 1882, where he saw his play Vera open---unsuccessfully---in New York. His first published volume, Poems, which met with some degree of approbation, appeared at this time. In 1884 he married Constance Lloyd, the daughter of an Irish lawyer, and within two years they had two sons. During this period he wrote, among others, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), his only novel, which scandalized many readers and was widely denounced as immoral. Wilde simultaneously dismissed and encouraged such criticism with his statement in the preface, "There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all." In 1891 Wilde published A House of Pomegranates, a collection of fantasy tales, and in 1892 gained commercial and critical success with his play, Lady Windermere's Fan He followed this comedy with A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ideal Husband (1895), and his most famous play, The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). During this period he also wrote Salome, in French, but was unable to obtain a license for it in England. Performed in Paris in 1896, the play was translated and published in England in 1894 by Lord Alfred Douglas and was illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley. Lord Alfred was the son of the Marquess of Queensbury, who objected to his son's spending so much time with Wilde because of Wilde's flamboyant behavior and homosexual relationships. In 1895, after being publicly insulted by the marquess, Wilde brought an unsuccessful slander suit against the peer. The result of his inability to prove slander was his own trial on charges of sodomy, of which he was found guilty and sentenced to two years of hard labor. During his time in prison, he wrote a scathing rebuke to Lord Alfred, published in 1905 as De Profundis. In it he argues that his conduct was a result of his standing "in symbolic relations to the art and culture" of his time. After his release, Wilde left England for Paris, where he wrote what may be his most famous poem, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), drawn from his prison experiences. Among his other notable writing is The Soul of Man under Socialism (1891), which argues for individualism and freedom of artistic expression. There has been a revived interest in Wilde's work; among the best recent volumes are Richard Ellmann's, Oscar Wilde and Regenia Gagnier's Idylls of the Marketplace , two works that vary widely in their critical assumptions and approach to Wilde but that offer rich insights into his complex character. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Oscar Wilde's The picture of Dorian Gray: a graphic novel
- Original title
- Oscar Wilde's The picture of Dorian Gray: a graphic novel
- Alternate titles
- The picture of Dorian Gray: a graphic novel
- Original publication date
- 2008; 1890 (Original) (Original); 2008 (Graphic Novel) (Graphic Novel)
- People/Characters
- Dorian Gray; Basil Hallward; Lord Henry Wotton
- Related movies
- The Picture of Dorian Gray (2007 | IMDb)
- Epigraph
- All art is quite useless - Oscar Wilde
- First words
- It is your best work, Basil.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Oh, my....
- Disambiguation notice
- This is a graphic novel adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray; it should not be combined with the original work, or with any other adaptation.
This is the Eye Classics graphic novel adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray, not the original work.
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- Graphic Novels & Comics
- DDC/MDS
- 741.5973 — Arts & recreation Drawing & decorative arts Drawing Comic books, graphic novels, fotonovelas, cartoons, caricatures, comic strips History, geographic treatment, biography North American United States (General)
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- PN6737 .C85 .O83 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Collections of general literature Comic books, strips, etc.
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