The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 9780099511144 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 9780099511144 Global Overview for this book
Registered by catsalive of Rooty Hill, New South Wales Australia on 9/29/2016
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Journal Entry 1 by catsalive from Rooty Hill, New South Wales Australia on Thursday, September 29, 2016
Introduction by Irvine Welsh.
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.”
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.”
Journal Entry 2 by catsalive at Alphabet Authors, Bookring -- Controlled Releases on Friday, September 30, 2016
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Journal Entry 3 by Edwardstreet at Wellington City, Wellington Province New Zealand on Thursday, October 13, 2016
O bookring - a classic I have not read
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