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In Yiddish. 232 pages. 215 x 148 mm. From a long defunct library: Zohar Ziion in Waterbury, Connecticut. The translator was an author, writer, translator and journalist. (7 December 1857 -2 December 1920). Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays The Importance of Being Earnest and Salome, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his long poem, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, dealing with his harsh prison life, his De Profundis, a long letter which discusses his spiritual journey through his trials. his criminal conviction, and his two years' imprisonment with hard labor for consensual homosexual acts with an adult. He was born a Protestant and on his deathbed converted to Catholicism.

The Picture of Dorian Gray is a novel by Oscar Wilde that follows a young man named Dorian Gray, who becomes the subject of a painting. As Dorian engages in a hedonistic and amoral lifestyle, he finds that the portrait reflects the consequences of his actions on his soul, while he himself remains young and beautiful.