The Picture of Dorian Gray: Reading in the Original with Commentary

The best way to learn a foreign language is to read a literary work, gradually mastering vocabulary and grammar. Improve your English with "The Picture of Dorian Gray" – a shocking, scandalous, yet alluring novel that will show you the underside of high society, where the boundaries of morality blur. Here you will meet Mr. Gray – charming and eternally beautiful. What secrets does he hide? And how far is he willing to go to ensure no one finds out? For the pursuit of a dream can turn into the loss of oneself and lead to deception, cruelty, and even... murder. By following Mr. Gray in his quest to outsmart life and death, you can expand your vocabulary and learn to use grammatical structures in context. The full text of the work is accompanied by a detailed lexical-grammatical commentary with references to the rules in the Grammar Handbook. At the end of the book, there is an English-Russian glossary containing vocabulary from the novel. This edition is intended for everyone learning English and striving to read books in the original.