Black Cat Reading Classics C1-c2: The Picture of Dorian Gray + Audio Cd + online Teacher's Book

The publication in 1890 of Wilde’s only novel led to a furious public debate over art and morality. Dorian Gray’s double life in elegant high society and in London’s most degraded slums express the essence of aestheticism and fin de siècle decadence and shows up the hypocrisies of Victorian society.


Key Features:
* Extensive introduction placing the author and his/her work into context
* in-depth bibliography providing a springboard for further study
* detailed chronology giving a complete view of the author´s life and works
* wide the variety of activities encouraging response to the text and aiding language acquistion
* numerous footnotes with phonetic transriptions of some difficult words
* Dramatised recording of selected extracts by native speakers in American of British English
* Teacher´s Book, which can be downloaded from our website