书名：The Picture of Dorian Gray 道林格雷的画像
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数970L
作者：Oscar Wilde
出版社名称：Alma Classics
出版时间：2001
语种：英文
ISBN：9781847493729
商品尺寸：5.1 x 0.8 x 20 cm
包装：平装
页数：142（以实物为准）

The Picture of Dorian Gray《道林格雷的画像》是英国著名戏剧家、小说家奥斯卡·王尔德一部哲学性作品。由于作品所揭示的社会以及人性黑暗面，在发表之初一度引起争议。但在今天看来，因为其深刻的内涵和引人深思的人物情节设置，《道林格雷的画像》却是一部不可多得的好作品。本书适合对王尔德感兴趣的文学爱好者，也适合想要提高英语水平的英语学习者。

推荐理由：
1. 王尔德少有的小说作品，是哲学、美学和文学的完美结合，引人入胜，值得一读；
2. 英国“卫报”推荐百大文学作品第27位；

Dorian Gray is having his picture painted by Basil Hallward, who is charmed by his looks. But when Sir Henry Wotton visits, and seduces Dorian into the worship of youthful beauty with an intoxicating speech, Dorian makes a wish he will live to regret: that all the marks of age will now be reflected in the portrait, rather than on Dorian's own face. The stage is now set for a masterful tale about appearance, reality, art, life, truth, fiction and the ultimate burden of conscience.

道林格雷是一名长在伦敦的贵族少年，相貌极其俊美，并且心地善良。道林见了画家霍尔沃德为他所作的画像，发现了自己惊人的美，在画家朋友亨利勋爵的蛊惑下，他向画像许下心愿：美少年青春永葆，所有岁月的沧桑和少年的罪恶都由画像承担。后来他的愿望成真了，但是他却开始了一系列罪恶的行为……

The Picture of Dorian Gray is the story of one beautiful, innocent young man’s seduction, moral corruption, and eventual downfall. Dorian Gray is the subject of a full-length portrait in oil by Basil Hallward, an artist who is impressed and infatuated by Dorian’s beauty; he believes that Dorian’s beauty is responsible for the new mode in his art as a painter. Through Basil, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, and he soon is enthralled by the aristocrat’s hedonistic worldview: that beauty and sensual fulfilment are the only things worth pursuing in life. Newly understanding that his beauty will fade, Dorian expresses the desire to sell his soul, to ensure that the picture, rather than he, will age and fade. The wish is granted, and Dorian pursues a libertine life of varied and amoral experiences, while staying young and beautiful; all the while his portrait ages and records every soul-corrupting sin.

奥斯卡·王尔德（Oscar Wilde，1854~1900），19世纪英国伟大、有才华的作家与艺术家之一，他的经典作品包含小说、童话、戏剧、诗歌等等，是一个难得的全能作家。同时，王尔德是唯美主义代表人物，19世纪80年代美学运动的主力和先驱，是与萧伯纳齐名的绝世才子。他写的童话故事，常与安徒生、格林童话相并论。他的戏剧作品可与莎士比亚的作品相媲美。几百年来，王尔德的作品一直被广为流传，并受到广大读者的青睐。

Oscar Wilde was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London’s most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death.

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.
The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass. The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass. The moral life of man forms part of the subject-matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.
No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are true can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.