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| the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde, 1908 |
| the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde, 1992 This revised Norton Critical Edition, like its predecessor, is the only edition available that includes both the 1890 Lippincott's and the 1891 book version of The Picture of Dorian Gray. Under the editorial guidance of Wilde scholar Michael Patrick Gillespie, students have the opportunity to read comparatively both published versions of this controversial novel. Backgrounds and Reviews and Reactions allow readers to gauge The Picture of Dorian Gray's sensational reception when the 1890 version appeared and to consider the heated public debate over art and morality that followed its publication. Joris-Karl Huysmans, Walter Pater, and Oscar Wilde offer a sense of the diverse opinions on these topics. Eight contemporary reviews and comments on the novel are reprinted, among them four opinions from the St. James's Gazette immediately after publication in 1890, each followed by Oscar Wilde's vehement reply. Criticism includes seven new essays on the novel that reflect key changes in interpretive theory in recent years and reveal the broad range of perspectives associated with Wilde and The Picture of Dorian Gray. Simon Joyce, Donald L. Lawler, Sheldon W. Liebman, Maureen O'Connor, Ellie Ragland-Sullivan, John Paul Riquelme, and Michael Patrick Gillespie provide their varied assessments. A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are also included.--BOOK JACKET. |
| the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde, 1981 Spellbound before his own portrait, Dorian Gray utters a fateful wish. In exchange for eternal youth he gives his soul, to be corrupted by the malign influence of his mentor, the aesthete and hedonist Lord Henry Wotton. |
| the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde, 2006-10-12 When Dorian Gray has his portrait painted, he is captivated by his own beauty. Set in fin-de-siecle London, this novel traces a path from the studio of painter Basil Hallward to the opium dens of the East End. Combining elements of the supernatural, aestheticism, and the Gothic, this is a work of fiction. |
| the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde, 1998-06-01 Introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde’s story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author’s most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray’s moral disintegration caused a scandal when it first appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel’s corrupting influence, he responded that there is, in fact, “a terrible moral in Dorian Gray.” Just a few years later, the book and the aesthetic/moral dilemma it presented became issues in the trials occasioned by Wilde’s homosexual liaisons, which resulted in his imprisonment. Of Dorian Gray’s relationship to autobiography, Wilde noted in a letter, “Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be—in other ages, perhaps.” |
| the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde: Dorian Will Self, 2003-06-26 Takes both subject and style seriously. This title features the locations, characters, plot and epigrams transposed from the 1890s to the 1990s. |
| the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde, 2016-03-24 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde from Coterie Classics All Coterie Classics have been formatted for ereaders and devices and include a bonus link to the free audio book. “Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray A man sells his soul for eternal youth and scandalizes the city in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. |
| the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde, 2011-04-11 The Picture of Dorian Gray altered the way Victorians understood the world they inhabited, heralding the end of a repressive era. Now, more than 120 years after Wilde handed it over to his publisher, Wilde’s uncensored typescript is published here for the first time, in an annotated, extensively illustrated edition. |
| the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings Oscar Wilde, 2012-05-09 Flamboyant and controversial, Oscar Wilde was a dazzling personality, a master of wit, and a dramatic genius whose sparkling comedies contain some of the most brilliant dialogue ever written for the English stage. Here in one volume are his immensely popular novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray; his last literary work, “The Ballad of Reading Gaol,” a product of his own prison experience; and four complete plays: Lady Windermere’s Fan, his first dramatic success, An Ideal Husband, which pokes fun at conventional morality, The Importance of Being Earnest, his finest comedy, and Salomé, a portrait of uncontrollable love originally written in French and faithfully translated by Richard Ellmann. Every selection appears in its entirety–a marvelous collection of outstanding works by the incomparable Oscar Wilde, who’s been aptly called “a lord of language” by Max Beerbohm. |
| the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde, 2003-09-01 Dorian Gray doesn't look a day over twenty-two. Once upon a time, Dorian really was young, handsome, and charming. To preserve Dorian's charm, his friend Basil Hallward the artist painted his portrait. Soon, the picture -- and Dorian's close friendship with Basil -- On the inside, every wicked deed he commits leaves its mark -- or does it? The portrait that Basil painted hangs in a special room in Dorian's house, covered completely. Underneath the cover lies an image that has changed and aged, just as Dorian has not. |
| the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde: The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde, 2020-08-29 Over 120 years after Oscar Wilde submitted The Picture of Dorian Gray for publication, the uncensored version of his novel appears here for the first time in a paperback edition. This volume restores material, including instances of graphic homosexual content, removed by the novel's first editor, who feared it would be offensive to Victorians. |
| the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde, 2011-07-26 Oscar Wilde’s enduringly popular story of a beautiful and corrupt man and the portrait that reveals all his secrets—The Picture of Dorian Gray is a novel as flamboyant and controversial as its incomparable author. Entranced by the perfection of his recently painted portrait, the youthful Dorian Gray expresses a wish that the figure on the canvas could age and change in his place. When his wish comes true, the portrait becomes his hideous secret as he follows a downward trajectory of decadence and cruelty that leaves its traces only in the portrait’s degraded image. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde’s unforgettable portrayal of a Faustian bargain and its consequences, is narrated with his characteristic incisive wit and diamond-sharp prose. |
| the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde: The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde, 2012-08-13 “Now, for the first time, we can read the version that Wilde intended...Both the text and Nicholas Frankel’s introduction make for fascinating reading.” —Paris Review More than 120 years after Oscar Wilde submitted The Picture of Dorian Gray for publication in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, the uncensored version of his novel appears here for the first time in a paperback edition. This volume restores all of the material removed by the novel’s first editor. Upon receipt of the typescript, Wilde’s editor panicked at what he saw. Contained within its pages was material he feared readers would find “offensive”—especially instances of graphic homosexual content. He proceeded to go through the typescript with his pencil, cleaning it up until he made it “acceptable to the most fastidious taste.” Wilde did not see these changes until his novel appeared in print. Wilde’s editor’s concern was well placed. Even in its redacted form, the novel caused public outcry. The British press condemned it as “vulgar,” “unclean,” “poisonous,” “discreditable,” and “a sham.” When Wilde later enlarged the novel for publication in book form, he responded to his critics by further toning down its “immoral” elements. Wilde famously said that The Picture of Dorian Gray “contains much of me”: Basil Hallward is “what I think I am,” Lord Henry “what the world thinks me,” and “Dorian what I would like to be—in other ages, perhaps.” Wilde’s comment suggests a backward glance to a Greek or Dorian Age, but also a forward-looking view to a more permissive time than his own repressive Victorian era. By implication, Wilde would have preferred we read today the uncensored version of his novel. |
| the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray: Oscar Wilde (Classics, Literature) Annotated Oscar Wilde, 2021-06-07 The Picture of Dorian Gray is the story of one beautiful, innocent young man''s seduction, moral corruption, and eventual downfall. We meet our three central characters at the beginning of the book, when painter Basil Hallward and his close friend, Lord Henry Wotton, are discussing the subject of Basil''s newest painting, a gorgeous young thing named Dorian Gray. Basil and Henry discuss just how perfectly perfect Dorian is--he''s totally innocent and completely good, as well as being the most beautiful guy ever to walk the earth. Lord Henry wants to meet this mysterious boy, but Basil doesn''t want him to; for some reason, he''s afraid of what will happen to Dorian if Lord Henry digs his claws into him. However, Lord Henry gets his wish--Dorian shows up that very afternoon, and, over the course of the day, Henry manages to totally change Dorian''s perspective on the world. From that point on, Dorian''s previously innocent point of view is dramatically different--he begins to see life as Lord Henry does, as a succession of pleasures in which questions of good and evil are irrelevant. Basil finishes his portrait of Dorian, and gives it to the young man, who keeps it in his home, where he can admire his own beauty. Lord Henry continues to exert his influence over Dorian, to Basil''s dismay. Dorian grows more and more distant from Basil, his former best friend, and develops his own interests. One of these interests is Sybil Vane, a young, exceptionally beautiful, exceptionally talented--and exceptionally poor--actress. Though she''s stuck performing in a terrible, third-rate theatre, she''s a truly remarkable artist, and her talent and beauty win over Dorian. He falls dramatically in love with her, and she with him. For a moment, it seems like everything will turn out wonderfully. However, this is just the beginning of Dorian''s story. Once he and Sybil are engaged, her talent suddenly disappears--she''s so overcome with her passionate love for Dorian that none of her roles on stage seem important to her anymore. This destroys Dorian''s love for her, and he brutally dumps her. Back home, he notices a something different in his portrait--it looks somehow crueler. In the meanwhile, the distraught Sybil commits suicide, just as Dorian decides to return to her and take back his terrible words. Sybil''s suicide changes everything. At first, Dorian feels horrible... but he rather quickly changes his tune. On Lord Henry''s suggestion, Dorian reads a mysterious yellow book, a decadent French novel that makes him reevaluate his whole belief system. The protagonist of the book lives his life in pursuit of sensual pleasures, which intrigues Dorian. From this moment on, Dorian is a changed man. Dorian starts to live as hedonistically as his wicked mentor, Lord Henry, does. The only thing that documents this turn for the worst is the portrait, which alarmingly begins to exhibit the inward corruption of Dorian''s soul; the beautiful image changes, revealing new scars and physical flaws with each of Dorian''s dastardly actions. As years pass, the man in the picture grows more and more hideous, as Dorian himself stays unnaturally young and beautiful. Rumors start to spread about the various people whose lives Dorian has ruined, and his formerly good reputation is destroyed. On Dorian''s 38th birthday, he encounters Basil, who desperately asks his former friend if all the horrifying rumors about him are true. Dorian finally snaps and shows Basil the portrait, in which the horrible truth about his wicked nature is revealed. Basil recoils, and begs Dorian to pray for forgiveness. In response, Dorian murders Basil, stabbing him brutally. He blackmails another of his former friends into disposing of the body. Dorian retreats to an opium den after dealing with all of the evidence, where he encounters an enemy he didn''t know he had--Sybil Vane''s brother, James... |
| the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde: To Paradise Hanya Yanagihara, 2022-01-11 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the award-winning, best-selling author of the classic A Little Life—a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, about lovers, family, loss and the elusive promise of utopia. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: VOGUE • ESQUIRE • NPR • GOODREADS To Paradise is a fin de siècle novel of marvelous literary effect, but above all it is a work of emotional genius. The great power of this remarkable novel is driven by Yanagihara’s understanding of the aching desire to protect those we love—partners, lovers, children, friends, family, and even our fellow citizens—and the pain that ensues when we cannot. In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of the Free States, where people may live and love whomever they please (or so it seems). The fragile young scion of a distinguished family resists betrothal to a worthy suitor, drawn to a charming music teacher of no means. In a 1993 Manhattan besieged by the AIDS epidemic, a young Hawaiian man lives with his much older, wealthier partner, hiding his troubled childhood and the fate of his father. And in 2093, in a world riven by plagues and governed by totalitarian rule, a powerful scientist’s damaged granddaughter tries to navigate life without him—and solve the mystery of her husband’s disappearances. These three sections comprise an ingenious symphony, as recurring notes and themes deepen and enrich one another: A townhouse in Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village; illness, and treatments that come at a terrible cost; wealth and squalor; the weak and the strong; race; the definition of family, and of nationhood; the dangerous righteousness of the powerful, and of revolutionaries; the longing to find a place in an earthly paradise, and the gradual realization that it can’t exist. What unites not just the characters, but these Americas, are their reckonings with the qualities that make us human: Fear. Love. Shame. Need. Loneliness. |
| the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde: Art and the Handicraftsman Oscar Wilde, 2017-06-23 The fragments of which this lecture is composed are taken entirely from the original manuscripts which have but recently been discovered. It is not certain that they all belong to the same lecture, nor that all were written at the same period. Some portions were written in Philadelphia in 1882. |
| the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray (annotated) Oscar Wilde, 2015-10-10 The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. |
| the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde, 2021-04-20 One of the greatest books ever written. A splendid masterpiece... |
| the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde: The Picture Of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde (Stage-3) Oscar Wilde, Dorian Gray is having his picture painted by Basil Hallward, who is charmed by his looks. But when Sir Henry Wotton visits and seduces Dorian into the worship of youthful beauty with an intoxicating speech, Dorian makes a wish he will live to regret: that all the marks of age will now be reflected in the portrait rather than on Dorian’s own face. The stage is now set for a masterful tale about appearance, reality, art, life, truth, fiction and the burden of conscience. |
| the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde, 2020-12-13 The story begins in the art studio of Basil Hallward, who is discussing a current painting with his witty and amoral friend Lord Henry Wotton. Henry thinks that the painting, a portrait of an extraordinarily beautiful young man, should be displayed, but Basil disagrees, fearing that his obsession with the portrait's subject, Dorian Gray, can be seen in the work. Dorian then arrives, and he is fascinated as Henry explains his belief that one should live life to the fullest by indulging one's impulses. Henry also points out that beauty and youth are fleeting, and Dorian declares that he would give his soul if the portrait were to grow old and wrinkled while he remained young and handsome. Basil gives the painting to Dorian. |
| the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde, 2020-11-09 One of the greatest books ever written. A splendid masterpiece. Dorian Gray is the subject of a full-length portrait in oil by Basil Hallward, an artist impressed and infatuated by Dorian's beauty; he believes that Dorian's beauty is responsible for the new mood in his art as a painter. Through Basil, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, and he soon is enthralled by the aristocrat's hedonistic world view: that beauty and sensual fulfillment are the only things worth pursuing in life. Newly understanding that his beauty will fade, Dorian expresses the desire to sell his soul, to ensure that the picture, rather than he, will age and fade. The wish is granted, and Dorian pursues a libertine life of varied amoral experiences while staying young and beautiful; all the while, his portrait ages and records every sin. |
| the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde - Large Print Edition Oscar Wilde, 2018-03-02 This is Oscar Wilde's most famous work and caused a lot of controversy on it's first publication in 1890. The story of a young and handsome Dorian Gray who sells his soul for the pleasures in life and retain his youth and beauty. LARGE PRINT EDITION 16 POINT FONT USED |
| the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde (Annotated) Version Oscar Wilde, 2020-04-13 Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author's most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused a scandal when it first appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel's corrupting influence, he responded that there is, in fact, a terrible moral in Dorian Gray. Just a few years later, the book and the aesthetic/moral dilemma it presented became issues in the trials occasioned by Wilde's homosexual liaisons, which resulted in his imprisonment. Of Dorian Gray's relationship to autobiography, Wilde noted in a letter, Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be-in other ages, perhaps. |
| the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde, 2022-08-30 LARGE PRINT EDITION. Dorian Gray is arrogant. He is pompous, selfish, devastatingly narcissistic, and for much of his life he has never had to think twice about the ramifications of his actions. When the arrival of artist Basil Hallard forces Gray to confront his deepest insecurities, Dorian's most vulnerable self is imminently revealed. After having traded his righteousness for riches, Dorian Gray becomes faced with many regrettable truths he must learn to tackle head on. Needing to own up to his actions, Gray must finally learn to deal with the consequences of living a life that completely self-obsessed. Gripping with relatable prose analogous to the many conundrums of growing up, Wilde weaves a narrative of both self-desire and self-actualization. The Picture of Dorian Gray is a true coming of age tale in a time where the glamour of appearances was as heavy as the currency in your pocket. |
| the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde Annotated Edition Oscar Wilde, 2020-04-14 Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author's most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused a scandal when it first appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel's corrupting influence, he responded that there is, in fact, a terrible moral in Dorian Gray. |
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| the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde OSCAR WILDE, Octopus Publishing Group, 2005-04 Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence. |
| the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde (Annotated) Oscar Wilde, 2020-04-12 Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author's most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused a scandal when it first appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel's corrupting influence, he responded that there is, in fact, a terrible moral in Dorian Gray. Just a few years later, the book and the aesthetic/moral dilemma it presented became issues in the trials occasioned by Wilde's homosexual liaisons, which resulted in his imprisonment. Of Dorian Gray's relationship to autobiography, Wilde noted in a letter, Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be-in other ages, perhaps. |
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| the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Oscar Wilde, 2016-10-20 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray is a philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. The magazine's editor feared the story was indecent, and without Wilde's knowledge, deleted roughly five hundred words before publication. Despite that censorship, The Picture of Dorian Gray offended the moral sensibilities of British book reviewers, some of whom said that Oscar Wilde merited prosecution for violating the laws guarding the public morality. In response, Wilde aggressively defended his novel and art in correspondence with the British press, although he personally made excisions of some of the most controversial material when revising and lengthening the story for book publication the following year. Dorian Gray is the subject of a full-length portrait in oil by Basil Hallward, an artist who is impressed and infatuated by Dorian's beauty; he believes that Dorian's beauty is responsible for the new mode in his art as a painter. Through Basil, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, and he soon is enthralled by the aristocrat's hedonistic worldview: that beauty and sensual fulfilment are the only things worth pursuing in life. Newly understanding that his beauty will fade, Dorian expresses the desire to sell his soul, to ensure that the picture, rather than he, will age and fade. The wish is granted, and Dorian pursues a libertine life of varied and amoral experiences, while staying young and beautiful; all the while his portrait ages and records every sin. |
| the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde, 2017-10-20 The Picture of Dorian Gray Dorian Gray is having his picture painted by Basil Hallward, who is charmed by his looks. But when Sir Henry Wotton visits and seduces Dorian into the worship of youthful beauty with an intoxicating speech, Dorian makes a wish he will live to regret: that all the marks of age will now be reflected in the portrait rather than on Dorian�e(tm)s own face. The stage is now set for a masterful tale about appearance, reality, art, life, truth, fiction and the burden of conscience. Oscar Wilde�e(tm)s only full-length novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray is a lasting gem of sophisticated wit and playfulness, which brings together all the best elements of his talent in a reinterpretation of the Faustian myth. |
| the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde, 2017-10-14 The Picture of Dorian Gray is a philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine.In the wealthy and vain hedonist Dorian Gray, London painter Basil Hallward has found his muse. Only when the portrait of Dorian begins to age, while the man himself remains untouched by time, do they realize they may have made a deal with the devil. Oscar Wilde's only novel takes a witty, philosophical, and harrowing look at our obsession with youth and the price we pay for it. |
| the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde The Annotated Edition Oscar Wilde, 2020-04-14 Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author's most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused a scandal when it first appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel's corrupting influence, he responded that there is, in fact, a terrible moral in Dorian Gray. |
| the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde The New Annotated Edition Oscar Wilde, 2020-04-15 Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author's most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused a scandal when it first appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel's corrupting influence, he responded that there is, in fact, a terrible moral in Dorian Gray. |
| the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde (Annotated) Soul Selling Story Oscar Wilde, 2020-04-12 Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author's most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused a scandal when it first appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel's corrupting influence, he responded that there is, in fact, a terrible moral in Dorian Gray. Just a few years later, the book and the aesthetic/moral dilemma it presented became issues in the trials occasioned by Wilde's homosexual liaisons, which resulted in his imprisonment. Of Dorian Gray's relationship to autobiography, Wilde noted in a letter, Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be-in other ages, perhaps. |
| the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde, 2015-01-21 From the corner of the divan of Persian saddle-bags on which he was lying, smoking, as was his custom, innumerable cigarettes, Lord Henry Wotton could just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured blossoms of a laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flamelike as theirs; and now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion. The sullen murmur of the bees shouldering their way through the long unmown grass, or circling with monotonous insistence round the dusty gilt horns of the straggling woodbine, seemed to make the stillness more oppressive. The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ. |
| the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde Annotated Kindal Oscar Wilde, 2020-04-14 Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author's most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused a scandal when it first appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel's corrupting influence, he responded that there is, in fact, a terrible moral in Dorian Gray. |
| the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde (Annotated) Edition Unabridged Oscar Wilde, 2020-04-13 Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author's most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused a scandal when it first appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel's corrupting influence, he responded that there is, in fact, a terrible moral in Dorian Gray. Just a few years later, the book and the aesthetic/moral dilemma it presented became issues in the trials occasioned by Wilde's homosexual liaisons, which resulted in his imprisonment. Of Dorian Gray's relationship to autobiography, Wilde noted in a letter, Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be-in other ages, perhaps. |
| the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde: Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde, 2007 From the Longman Cultural Editions series, Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray: A Longman Cultural Edition, edited by Andrew Elfenbein, presents the 1891 version of Wilde's novel with detailed annotations drawing on contemporary writings about London. It also presents a range of cultural contexts with information about the novel's first reviews, aestheticism, Victorian treatments of sexuality and science, and parodies of the novel. Handsomely produced and affordably priced, the Longman Cultural Editions series presents classic works in provocative and illuminating contexts-cultural, critical, and literary. Each Cultural Edition consists of the complete text of an important literary work, reliably edited, headed by an inviting introduction, and supplemented by helpful annotations; a table of dates to track its composition, publication, and public reception in relation to biographical, cultural and historical events; and a guide for further inquiry and study. The following Longman Cultural Editions are available now: Othello and the Tragedy of Mariam;Pride and Prejudice; Hamlet (Second Edition), Hard Times; Beowulf; King Lear; The Merchant of Venice; Northanger Abbey; Emma; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria; Heart of Darkness, the Man Who Would Be King, and Other Works on Empire; Frankenstein (Second Edition). Forthcoming titles include: The Castle of Otranto and The Man of Feeling, Keats, Wuthering Heights, and Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2. One Cultural Edition can be packaged FREE with The Longman Anthology of British Literature by Damrosch et al, or at a discount with any other Longman textbook. Longman Cultural Editions are available for sale individually or a single volume can be packaged FREE with The Longman Anthology of British Literature. |
| the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde The New Annotated Version Oscar Wilde, 2020-04-15 Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author's most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused a scandal when it first appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel's corrupting influence, he responded that there is, in fact, a terrible moral in Dorian Gray. |
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Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde (1854-1900) is a prominent representative of aestheticism in English literature. ... In Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray Beauty takes over an ethical …
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PORTRAITURE AND HOMOEROTIC DESIRE IN THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
The aim of this study is to analyze the connection between portraiture and sexuality in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), and how these elements, along with many other …
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Oscar wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray Chapter 16 A cold rain began to fall, and the blurred street-lamps looked ghastly in the dripping mist. The public-houses were just closing, and dim …
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Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray has been interpreted in a number of ways since it was published in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine in 1890. These include Wilde’s so-
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Wilde, Oscar, 1854–1900. [Portrait of Dorian Gray] The uncensored picture of Dorian Gray / Oscar Wilde ; edited by Nicholas Frankel. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-0-674 …
The Spaces of Addiction in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray
Introduction: The Spaces of Addiction in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray The hideous hunger for opium began to gnaw at him. His throat burned, and his delicate hands twitched …
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In The Picture of Dorian GrayOscar Wilde wrote a tale that synthesized Gothic conventions like the magic picture, duality and physical mut-ability. In some of his later stories he added a …
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subject and the audience, integrated into the magical portrait of Dorian Gray; Wilde’s exploration of the psychological torment of Dorian, by projecting his sins onto a double, suggests Poe’s …
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In Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, the exact role of the portrait in the novel has remained mysterious, particularly because the novel offers no explanation. However, …
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metaphoric expressions used by Oscar Wilde in “The Picture of Dorian Gray”. In the passage illustrated below O. Wilde makes the passage an exemplary portrayal of the terrible hold Lord …
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2 ABSTRACT Oscar Wilde’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray was first published in July 1890 simultaneously in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine in Philadelphia, USA, and in UK. The novel …
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The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde. THE PREFACE The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into …
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The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde (1890) The Picture of Dorian Gray Chapter I T he studio was filled with the rich odor of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the …
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Aesthetic Principles in Oscar Wilde‟s The Picture of Dorian Gray
Later, when Wilde wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray, he made a book have great impact on Dorian Gray‟s life, in the same way A Rebours had on his (Pearce 177). In the novel Lord …
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Mirror Image Interpretation of Dorian Gray’s Psychic Transformation Yan Zhang Nantong University, China Abstract—Oscar Wilde, the representative of Aestheticism, is the most …
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Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde is a novel written in the late 19th century. It explores themes ofbeauty, hedonism, and the consequences of living a life focused solely on sensory …
The Theme of Superficiality in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture
1.2 Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde is a prominent writer and leader of the Aesthetic Movement, known for his wit and subversive social commentary. One of his most …
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whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray’s good looks,— we will all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.’ ‘Dorian Gray? is that his name?’ said Lord Henry, walking across the …
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The Picture of Dorian Gray is Oscar Wilde’s novel, published originally in 1890 (as a serial) and then in book form the following year. The book explores the doctrine of Aestheticism: devotion …
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The Aesthetic Use of Symbols in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray
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In the manner of all great books, the only novel of Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray” offers us little that is new and, of course, does not open a new world for us, but still it remains a …
