false 1857395 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg The Picture of Dorian Gray</B></U>, edited by Jennifer Wicke, includes the novel and contextual materials from the era of Oscar Wilde. This edition of Oscar Wilde's classic work, The Picture of Dorian Gray, highlights the novel's modernity in both its form and its revolutionary content, and traces its links to modernist literature and the culture of modernity alike. Readers interested in Oscar Wilde.]]> 5297 475 1858012 book 1890 The Picture of Dorian Gray total:32857|5:10834|4:12322|3:7504|2:1730|1:467| 32857 129897 44825 2351 3565 4.03 65526 4217 173586 3.60 20 1 15083340 253624 5297 0375751513 9780375751516 1697 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1204865529m/5297.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5297.The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray 3.95 25471 2 34 false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 10 15:24:40 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 10 15:24:40 -0800 2008
Like Frankenstein, it starts out with a great premise: what if a portrait bore the brunt of age and sin, while the person remained in the flush of youth? How would that person feel as they watched a constant reminder of their true nature develop?...more...]]> 7184196 449045 5297 0375751513 9780375751516 1697 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1204865529m/5297.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5297.The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray 3.95 32857 5 26 false Tue Oct 02 21:45:26 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 21 02:21:38 -0700 2008
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 brea...more...]]> 18428015 175635 5297 0375751513 9780375751516 1697 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1204865529m/5297.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5297.The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray 3.95 32857 4 25 false Sun Mar 23 03:47:04 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 23 03:52:57 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2665776 168724 87809 014043187X 9780140431872 22 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171111698m/87809.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/87809.The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray 4.05 349 As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment."

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Dorian Gray is an irresistibly handsome (and utterly selfish) socialite concerned with superficialities of the ego: appearance, beauty, passion, youth and image. One day, after his artist friend paints his picture, Gray expresses his desire to remain as youn...more...]]> 8748780 348661 5297 0375751513 9780375751516 1697 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1204865529m/5297.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5297.The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray 3.95 32857 4 7 false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Nov 06 10:36:54 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 06 10:50:26 -0800 2007 more...]]> 1511611 104097 5297 0375751513 9780375751516 1697 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1204865529m/5297.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5297.The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray 3.95 32857 4 4 false Tue May 29 07:46:55 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 20:17:36 -0800 2009
“We are punished for our refusals. Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind, and poisons us. The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing re...more...]]> 17148755 882233 2960574 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1204802773m/2960574.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2960574._ 3.97 35
أوسكار وايلد واحد من هؤلاء الذين أدركوا أهمية الموسيقى كغذاء للروح واللوحة كمتعة للعين. فلم يهتم كثيراً لإرضاء النقاد، بل فكر بالقارئ المتعب نفسياً، فكتب ليريحه، ,لم يجعل من الكلمة أداة تعبير فقط، بل تعبيراً عن الكمال، وما اشتكى من ألم نفسي أصابه وهو يكتب عن دوريان، ولا ترك بطله يتعذب بل تعذب معه.

نصيحتي لك أيها القارئ ألا تبدأ بقراءة هذا الكتاب إلا إذا كان لديك متسع من الوقت، لأنه لن يكون بمقدورك تركه قبل إكماله. وهل يعقل أن يترك إنسان شعوراً بلذة الحياة لينصرف إلى ماديتها؟]]> 3 4 false Fri May 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 06 03:25:54 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 08 13:42:10 -0800 2008 1
في البداية أحب أن أنوه أن الرواية تمتلك حس فلسفي في بعض �...more...]]> 4427186 257105 5831822 i853260150 11 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1227268004m/5831822.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5831822.The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray 4.03 99 5 3 false Sun Aug 12 08:09:38 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 04:49:40 -0800 2009 The Picture of Dorian Gray is my favourite book ever. Thanks to Mr. Doherty for introducing me to this book. Oscar Wilde is famous for his wit, and in this book he successfully showed that talent of him through Lord Henry character who keeps on questioning the essence of b...more...]]> 2888634 180396 5297 0375751513 9780375751516 1697 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1204865529m/5297.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5297.The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray 3.95 32857 5 3 false Mon Jul 09 21:47:30 -0700 2007 Fri Nov 20 18:09:55 -0800 2009
Wilde was an aesthete? This is a work of aestheticism? Hardly. The Picture of Dorian Gray is a gripping and sincere morality tale,...more...]]> 21858753 185835 5297 0375751513 9780375751516 1697 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1204865529m/5297.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5297.The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray 3.95 32857 0 4 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996 Thu May 08 09:54:59 -0700 2008 Thu May 08 13:05:00 -0700 2008 more...]]> 31886800 1405967 5297 0375751513 9780375751516 1697 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1204865529m/5297.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5297.The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray 3.95 32857 5 2 false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 03 01:12:55 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 28 10:26:57 -0700 2008 more...]]> 20382024 1092129 5297 0375751513 9780375751516 1697 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1204865529m/5297.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5297.The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray 3.95 32857 5 3 true Thu Apr 17 09:25:29 -0700 2008 Tue May 13 08:50:29 -0700 2008 more...]]> 12134069 48404 608077 1593081758 9781593081751 35 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1210979766m/608077.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/608077.The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray 4.03 152 Oscar Wilde brings his enormous gifts for astute social observation and sparkling prose to The Picture of Dorian Gray, his 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, enchanting, obsessing, even corrupting readers for more than a hundred years.

Taking the reader in and out of London drawing rooms, to the heights of aestheticism, and to the depths of decadence, The Picture of Dorian Gray is not only a melodrama about moral corruption. Laced with bon mots and vivid depictions of upper-class refinement, it is also a fascinating look at the milieu of Wilde’s fin-de-siècle world and a manifesto of the creed “Art for Art’s Sake.”



The ever-quotable Wilde, who once delighted London with his scintillating plays, scandalized readers with this, his only novel. Upon publication, Dorian was condemned as dangerous, poisonous, stupid, vulgar, and immoral, and Wilde as a “driveling pedant.” The novel, in fact, was used against Wilde at his much-publicized trials for “gross indecency,” which led to his imprisonment and exile on the European continent. Even so, The Picture of Dorian Gray firmly established Wilde as one of the great voices of the Aesthetic movement, and endures as a classic that is as timeless as its hero.

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The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.
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