I always thought it was a Faustian novel in the literal sense. I had to pass on it because it cost nearly P400, but it was one of the first books I mooched on BookMooch, and I had to wait a couple of months for it because I had to angel mooch it from the US, etc., etc. Then I came across the Viking Whole Story edition at a Book Sale branch – illustrated by Tony Ross (of Francesca Simon’s Horrid Henry series) in addition to the pictorial annotations on the story’s historical, cultural, social, geographical, artistic, and scientific context.
In Jasper Fforde’s The Fourth Bear, one of the subplots is a reference to Oscar Wilde’s only novel - The Picture of Dorian Gray, and it definitely got me curious.
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