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Picnic at Hanging Rock

by Joan Lindsay

Published: 1983-08-18

Hardcover: 288 pages

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The Picnickers

by Floy Timmerman

Published: 2004-10-25

Paperback: 508 pages

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The Picnickers has ached to be written and in the nick-of-time, before the delicate nuances of memory fade into oblivion, it is. Descendants research Elizabeth, her one-time circus performer husband Tabor, and their children carving out a farm/ranch operation in the unbroken sod of Dakota. Following...

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Picture Maker

by Penina Spinaka

Published: 2003-06-02

Paperback: 544 pages

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A brilliant, powerful, historical saga - a grand epic by a prize-winning children's author. The world of 14th-century America is unknown to most readers and Penina Spinka's remarkable novel brings it triumphantly alive, from the tribal wars through to the Norse invasions and the fiercely resisted Christianity....

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The Picture of Dorian Gray (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics)

by Oscar Wilde

Published: 2003

Paperback: 288 pages

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&&LDIV&&R&&LDIV&&R&&LI&&RThe Picture of Dorian Gray&&L/I&&R, by &&LSTRONG&&ROscar Wilde&&L/B&&R, is part of the &&LI&&RBarnes & Noble Classics&&L/I&&R&&LI&&R &&L/I&&Rseries, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship...

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The Picture of Dorian Gray (Dover Thrift Editions)

by Oscar Wilde

Published: 2012-03-05

Kindle Edition: 175 pages

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In this celebrated work, his only novel, Wilde forged a devastating portrait of the effects of evil and debauchery on a young aesthete in late-19th-century England. Combining elements of the Gothic horror novel and decadent French fiction, the book centers on a striking premise: As Dorian...

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The Picture of Dorian Gray (Modern Library Classics)

by Oscar Wilde

Published: 1998-06-01

Paperback: 304 pages

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?Introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides  ?Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author's most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused a scandal when it ?rst...

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The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

by Oscar Wilde

Published: 2007-11-08

Paperback: 208 pages

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Basil Hallward, an artist, meets Dorian Gray and paints his portrait. The artist is so infatuated with Dorian's beauty that he begins to believe it is the reason for his quality of art. Dorian becomes convinced that beauty is all-important and wishes his portrait could age instead of him...

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The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings (Enriched Classics)

by Oscar Wilde

Published: 2005-04-26

Mass Market Paperback: 448 pages

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ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATEDBY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIPThe classic Gothic tale of horror that explores the pleasures and dangers of a life of decadence.EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES:? A concise introduction that gives readers important background information? A chronology of the a...

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The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories (Signet Classics)

by Oscar Wilde

Published: 2007-03-06

Mass Market Paperback: 0 pages

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In The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde's full-length novel, a fashionable young man sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Also included in the volume are three of the Irish master storyteller's short works:Lord Arthur Savile's CrimeThe Happy PrinceThe Birthbday of the Infanta ...

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The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories

Paperback: 196 pages

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Oscar Wilde's classic The Picture of Dorian Gray and three additional stories"Oh! In what a wild hour of madness he had killed his friend! How ghastly the mere memory of the scene! He saw it all again. Each hideous detail came back to him with added horror. Out of the black cave of time...