The picture of Dorian Gray

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Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray (2008, Oneworld Classics)

232 pages

English language

Published June 30, 2008 by Oneworld Classics.

ISBN:
978-1-84749-018-6
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5 stars (1 review)

A remarkably handsome youth, Dorian Gray, meets Lord Henry Wotton and is corrupted into a life of terrible evil. Granted eternal youth, Dorian Gray lives a wild, dissipated life while his portrait grows old and haggard. Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works.

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No one compares to Oscar Wilde

5 stars

Oscar Wilde would not appreciate me trying to place unintended meaning atop this classic work of fiction so I'll just say that it's a beautiful representation of Wilde as an artist - sumptuous prose with cutting wit, disarming passages that wax poetic buttressed against satire, social commentary and (forgive me, Oscar) a little cynicism. A delight.

Subjects

  • Appearance (Philosophy) -- Fiction
  • Conduct of life -- Fiction
  • Youthfulness -- Fiction
  • Portraits -- Fiction
  • Supernatural -- Fiction