"Time is your enemy, Mr Gray. ----- You must live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! We can never be young again. Youth! Ah, there is nothing in the world as important as youth!'" (p. 11)
Do you want to live young forever? Of course, including me, people would like to keep their looks beautifully even if they feel their age. To maintain their appearance, some of them have cosmetic surgery now.
In this book, the main character is Dorian Gray who has a beautiful face. When he works as a model for the artist called Basil, he meets Lord Henry who is an acquaintance of the painter. While they are talking, Basil completes Dorian's portrait. It shows his beautiful appearance very well but it also causes something unusual to him and his portrait. At first, when he gives his girl friend a cold attitude, a expression of his portrait changes something unkind, and cruel. After the incident, many strange things happen to him and the drawing one after another...
This book is in the Oxford Bookworms series. The original work is a little difficult to understand stories but this one is easier and it will be so helpful when you want to know about a rough contents in advance.
Oscar, Wild & retold by Nevile, Jill. (1890). The Picture of Dorian Gray.
London: Oxford University Press
Do you want to live young forever? Of course, including me, people would like to keep their looks beautifully even if they feel their age. To maintain their appearance, some of them have cosmetic surgery now.
In this book, the main character is Dorian Gray who has a beautiful face. When he works as a model for the artist called Basil, he meets Lord Henry who is an acquaintance of the painter. While they are talking, Basil completes Dorian's portrait. It shows his beautiful appearance very well but it also causes something unusual to him and his portrait. At first, when he gives his girl friend a cold attitude, a expression of his portrait changes something unkind, and cruel. After the incident, many strange things happen to him and the drawing one after another...
This book is in the Oxford Bookworms series. The original work is a little difficult to understand stories but this one is easier and it will be so helpful when you want to know about a rough contents in advance.
Oscar, Wild & retold by Nevile, Jill. (1890). The Picture of Dorian Gray.
London: Oxford University Press
When I was a first-year college student, I read The Picture of Dorian Gray in English literature class. It was long and difficult for me, but this book is good to understand the contents more easily. I will read this book and want to develop my understanding about Dorian Gray.
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