Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library
is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much
loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality
paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan
Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.
On its first publication The Picture of Dorian Gray was regarded as
dangerously modern in its depiction of fin-de-siècle decadence. In this
updated version of the Faust story, the tempter is Lord Henry Wotton,
who lives selfishly for amoral pleasure; Dorian's good angel is the
portrait painter Basil Hallward, whom Dorian murders. The book
highlights the tension between the polished surface of high society and
the life of secret vice. Although sin is punished in the end the book
has a flavour of the elegantly perverse.
With an Afterword by Peter Harness.