The Picture of Dorian Gray-道林·格雷的画像

作者：Wilde Oscar

书名：The Picture of Dorian Gray《道林·格雷的画像》

中文简介：《道林·格雷的画像》（The Picture of Dorian Gray），亦作《道林·格雷的肖像》，由爱尔兰作家奥斯卡·王尔德创作，是极少数仍广受欢迎的十九世纪唯美主义小说之一。此小说具有很强的唯美倾向，不但文辞绚丽，意象新颖，有许多带有王尔德特色的俏皮话和幽默，同时更隐约透露出同性恋意味，也是王尔德唯一的长篇小说。

《格雷的画像》于1890年首次出版，除了引起了轩然大波，并在尔后奥斯卡．王尔德因同性性行为而受审判中成为攻讦他的基础之一。本书详细描绘维多利亚时期的伦敦生活，攻击当时有礼却虚伪的上流社会，并以浮士德式的主人公格雷所犯的"罪恶"为主题，在当时处于维多利亚时代晚期的英国社会算是相当特立独行的文学作品。

英文简介：Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde’s story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author’s most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray’s moral disintegration caused a scandal when it first appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel’s corrupting influence, he responded that there is, in fact, “a terrible moral in Dorian Gray.” Just a few years later, the book and the aesthetic/moral dilemma it presented became issues in the trials occasioned by Wilde’s homosexual liaisons, which resulted in his imprisonment. Of Dorian Gray’s relationship to autobiography, Wilde noted in a letter, “Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be—in other ages, perhaps.”