Online Reading The Picture of Dorian Gray

⚡️Book Title : The Picture of Dorian Gray
⚡Book Author : Oscar Wilde
⚡Page : 272 pages
⚡Published June 1st 2004 by Random House: Modern Library (first published July 1890)

The Picture of Dorian Gray
Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wildes story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the authors most popular work. The tale of Dorian Grays moral disintegration caused a scandal when it ?rst appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novels corrupting in?uence, 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 Wildes homosexual liaisons, which resulted in his imprisonment. Of Dorian Grays 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 bein other ages, perhaps.
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