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.
