企鹅布面经典系列：道林•格雷的画像

The Picture of Dorian Gray

[基本信息/Product Details]

ASIN : 0141442468

Publisher : Penguin Classics; Illustrated edition (6 Nov. 2008)

Language : English

Hardcover : 252 pages

ISBN-10 : 9780141442464

ISBN-13 : 978-0141442464

Dimensions : 19.91 x 13.67 x 2.77 cm 438g

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

[书籍内容/Book Description]

企鹅布面经典系列，由屡获殊荣的Coralie Bickford Smith设计，书系封面呈现出东方水墨气质与西洋油画技法的融合，表达出东西文化交流融汇的特质。这些极具视觉设计的版本是用精美的烫金布艺制作而成，非常具有收藏价值。

“真悲哀啊！我会变老，但这幅画将会永远年轻……

如果能反过来就好了！如果永远年轻的是我，而变老的是画，那该多好啊！

为了这个，我愿献出这世上我拥有的一切！

我愿以我的灵魂交换！”

天生漂亮的少年，道林格雷因见了画家霍华德给他画的肖像，发现了自己惊人的美，又听信了亨利爵士的吹嘘，开始为自己韶华易逝，美貌难久感到痛苦，表示希望那幅肖像能代替自己承担岁月和心灵的负担，而让自己永远保持青春貌美。他的这个想入非非的愿望后来却莫名其妙的实现了，他开始挥霍自己的罪恶，后来这幅肖像却成为了记录恶行的证据，他因肖像而生也因肖像而死。正如书中结尾所描述，“他们进到屋内，发现墙上挂着一幅主人光彩夺目的画像，与他们上次见到他时一样，神奇地保持着极致的青春和美丽，真是奇迹。地板上躺着一具尸体，穿着晚礼服，心脏部位插着一把刀。他形容枯槁， 满脸皱纹，面目可憎。直到看了死者手上的戒指，他们才认出是谁。”

1891年出版《道林格雷的画像》引起极大的骚动，并受到媒体猛烈的攻击。王尔德也在该年结识艾尔佛瑞·道格拉斯爵士，悲惨的命运却就此开始。

王尔德作品在中国的影响，建筑师王大闳先生将《道林·格雷的画像》译写为《杜连魁》，场景亦转换为当时的台北。

《道林·格雷的画像》是19世纪末唯美主义代表作，堪称“为艺术而艺术”思潮在戏剧小说及绘画方面的三绝。这部作品中美丽的词藻和绚烂的意象附于人物和荒诞的情节，因此长期遭到误解，其实书中另有真意。

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.

Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence. The novel was a succès de scandale and the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895. It has lost none of its power to fascinate and disturb.

[作者简介/Author]

奥斯卡·王尔德

Oscar Wilde（1854—1900）

英国作家、戏剧家、诗人

王尔德一生创作颇丰，童话、戏剧、小说如今均已是文学经典。

在他生活的维多利亚时代，世人将他的童话与安徒生相提并论，对他的剧作追捧至极，但小说《道林·格雷的画像》却因艺术观不被接受而备受争议。后来他因为被指控入狱两年。出狱三年后，王尔德在巴黎一家小旅馆去世，年仅46岁。

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854. He went to Trinity College, Dublin and then to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he began to propagandize the new Aesthetic (or 'Art for Art's Sake') Movement.

Despite winning a first and the Newdigate Prize for Poetry, Wilde failed to obtain an Oxford scholarship, and was forced to earn a living by lecturing and writing for periodicals. After his marriage to Constance Lloyd in 1884, he tried to establish himself as a writer, but with little initial success. However, his three volumes of short fiction, The Happy Prince (1888), Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (1891) and A House of Pomegranates (1891), together with his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), gradually won him a reputation as a modern writer with an original talent, a reputation confirmed and enhanced by the phenomenal success of his Society Comedies - Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, all performed on the West End stage between 1892 and 1895.

Success, however, was short-lived. In 1891 Wilde had met and fallen extravagantly in love with Lord Alfred Douglas. In 1895, when his success as a dramatist was at its height, Wilde brought an unsuccessful libel action against Douglas's father, the Marquess of Queensberry. Wilde lost the case and two trials later was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for acts of gross indecency. As a result of this experience he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol. He was released from prison in 1897 and went into an immediate self-imposed exile on the Continent. He died in Paris in ignominy in 1900.

[系列简介/Series Introduction]

企鹅出版集团是世界著名的英语图书出版商，企鹅经典凡一千三百多种，初步遴选的书目有数百种之多，都是名至实归的经典作品，涵盖英、法、西、俄、德、意、阿拉伯、希伯来等多个语种，具有不同文化区域的代表性。

在英国、美国或澳大利亚，人们读名著时的首选往往就是企鹅经典，因为它已成为一个值得信赖的品牌。自1935年创建以来，企鹅经典书系堪称书界的奥斯卡，是久负盛名的文学丛书之一，能够入选其中的都是经典、具有特色同时也是引人入胜的精品，所选作品不仅具有思想性、艺术性，同时也具有可读性和代表性。对欧美作家而言，作品被列入企鹅经典是一种荣耀，也是写作被认可的重要标志之一。根据尼尔森图书调查公司的统计数据，在英国经典文学市场，企鹅集团所占的份额为65%。

企鹅经典丛书曾被多个国家引进，封面设计除了延续一贯的企鹅风格之外，也带着浓郁的地域文化特征。比如在巴西，封面表现出热情的南美风情；在韩国，封面带有亚洲元素。