The Picture of Dorian Gray
A Literature, Fantasy, Horror book. When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one...
Oscar Wilde brings his enormous gifts for astute social observation and sparkling prose to The Picture of Dorian Gray, the dreamlike story of a young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty. This dandy, who remains forever unchanged---petulant, hedonistic, vain, and amoral---while a painting of him ages and grows increasingly hideous with the years, has been horrifying and enchanting readers for more than 100 years. Taking the reader in and out of London drawing rooms, to the heights...
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Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
I don't know what I was quite expecting here. It's a psychological horror story with a lot of comic relief, in the form of the endless witty paradoxes. After page 30 you are thinking that if Lord Henry makes just one more crack you're going to knock his monocle off his family crest and grind it underfoot. Oscar often clearly thinks... classic readers, those who enjoy morals Oh Dorian. Oh Dorian.When I first read this book in the fruitless years of my youth I was excited, overwhelmed and a blank slate (as Dorian is, upon his first encounter with Lord Henry) easily molded, persuaded, influenced, etc.Certain Wildisms (Wildeisms?) would take my breath away. Would become my mottos to believe in. To follow....
