1st Edition
Dorian Graying Is Youth the Only Thing Worth Having?
By Robert Kastenbaum
Copyright 1995
252 Pages
by
Routledge
243 Pages
by
Routledge
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In his latest and perhaps most adventuresome book, Robert Kastenbaum offers a fresh view of the quest for perpetual youth. The focus is on the "pretty monster" that Oscar Wilde created a century ago in "The Picture of Dorian Gray". We see Dorian first within the frame of his own times, responding to the pressures of modernization by attempting to escape the natural progression of time. Next we... Read more
Dedication
You Are Young
PART I
Is Youth The Only Thing Worth Having?
Tithon and On and On and On ...parables of immortal aging
Dorian in His Own Times
PART II
Intermezzo
Dorian, the Opera
PART III
Dorian in Our Times
PART IV
Epilogue: You Are Old
References
Appendix
Biography
Robert Kastenbaum (Author)
