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by: Oscar Wilde
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Binding: Kindle Edition
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
Format: Kindle Book
Label: EbooksLib
Manufacturer: EbooksLib
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 124
Publication Date: July 14, 2005
Publisher: EbooksLib
Release Date: July 14, 2005
Sales Rank: 20910
Studio: EbooksLib
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'The Picture of Dorian Gray' is Oscar Wilde's classic tale of the moral decline of its title character, Dorian Gray. When Dorian has his portrait painted by Basil Hallward and wishes that he would stay young while his picture changes, his wish comes true. In exchange for this Dorian gives up his soul and as he ages the bad deeds that he commits are reflected in his painting and not him. 'The Picture of Dorian Gray', arguably Wilde's most popular work, was considered quite scandalous when it was first published in the late 1800s in Victorian England.
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Rating:  - The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame
Wilde sees the world more clearly than any writer of fiction in the last century. It is for that reason that his work is so filled with countless paradoxes and contradictions that challenge the mind and titillate the senses. Wilde lived in an infinitely ironic age, when society had grown so influential as to crowd out the individuals that made it up. Today, we have taken for granted this incongruity and so our writers cannot express the kind of irony that Wilde mastered, despite the fact that we ... Read More
Rating: - Disturbing- yet good
This book was difficult to read at first. I accept that the great ones always take a while to hook you as they build the characters. It has been a while since I read this book and yet much of it is fresh in my mind. Not a beach read. It's too deep. A story like no other I have ever read.
Rating:  - No Extras
Honestly - the book came brand new, but it didn't have any of the footnotes that other people's versions had. I was disappointed by that. Also, the pages are HUGE with small print. Don't get this version if you're reading it for a book club or school, you'll be disappointed.
Rating: - Another edition of the timeless book
I ordered the book having read it already, just to have it for my library. It has a beautiful geometric pattern cover, which looks better on the computer screen than in real life. I prefer the hard-cover edition, but this one will make a nice, inexpensive, but meaningful gift.
Rating: - "Beauty is a form of Genius."
Oscar Wilde was one of the foremost representatives of Aestheticism, a movement based on the notion that art exists for no other purpose than its existence itself ("l'art pour l'art"), not for the purpose of social and moral enlightenment. Born in Dublin and a graduate of Oxford's Magdalen College, he initially worked primarily as a journalist, editor and lecturer, but gradually turned to writing and produced his most acclaimed works in the six-year span from 1890 to 1895, roughly coinciding with ... Read More
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