Oscar Wilde: Le portrait de Dorian Gray (French language, 1920, Librairie P.-V. Stock)
325 pages
French language
Published Aug. 2, 1920 by Librairie P.-V. Stock.
A remarkably handsome youth, Dorian Gray, meets Lord Henry Wotton and is corrupted into a life of terrible evil. Granted eternal youth, Dorian Gray lives a wild, dissipated life while his portrait grows old and haggard. Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works.
This was a little tough to get through. Luckily it was read by one of my favorite readers (Simon Vance), and I really liked the banter of Sir Henry.
The plot is rather bizarre, but the dialogue is fabulous. Lots of great lines in this book.
