false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1204865529m/5297.jpg 5297 470 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 novel was met with moral outrage by contemporary critics who, dazzled perhaps by Wilde's brilliant style, may have confused the author with his creation, Lord Henry, to whom even Dorian protests, 'You cut life to pieces with your epigrams.'. Encouraged by Lord Henry to substitute pleasure for goodness and art for reality, Dorian tries to watch impassively as he brings misery and death to those who love him. But the picture is watching him, and, made hideous by the marks of sin, it confronts Dorian with the reflection of his fall from grace, the silent bearer of what is in effect a devastating moral judgement. 1858012 book 1890 The Picture of Dorian Gray total:31477|5:10369|4:11820|3:7185|2:1652|1:451| 31477 124435 42806 2275 2 31 false 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...]]> 5 26 false 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...]]> 4 25 false false Sun Mar 23 03:47:04 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 23 03:52:57 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 11 false false Tue Jul 03 07:18:39 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 05 07:33:46 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 10 false false Wed Jul 02 02:12:07 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 24 07:06:47 -0700 2008 4 8 false false Sun Mar 22 08:24:57 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 14:06:56 -0700 2009
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...]]> 4 7 false 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...]]> 3 4 false 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...]]> 5 3 false 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...]]> 0 4 false 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...]]> 5 2 false 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...]]> 5 3 false true Thu Apr 17 09:25:29 -0700 2008 Tue May 13 08:50:29 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 3 false false Mon Feb 25 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 10 00:29:53 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 06 19:52:35 -0800 2008
The Picture of Dorian Gray begins with one of Dorian's friends, a pain...more...]]> 4 2 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 21 06:02:02 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 06 06:11:01 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 4 false false Tue May 29 07:46:55 -0700 2007 Tue May 29 07:48:13 -0700 2007
“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...]]> 3 3 false false Mon Apr 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 15 17:31:10 -0700 2007 Tue Apr 29 13:04:47 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 4 false false Sat Jan 10 12:09:07 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 12:27:53 -0800 2009 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 highest, as the lowest, form of criticism is a mode of autobiograp...more...]]> 1 3 false false Fri Oct 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jan 03 19:08:16 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 19:22:05 -0800 2009
...more...]]> 1 1 false true Fri Oct 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 07:55:33 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 01 11:51:34 -0800 2009 Here's the story. Dorian Gray is an attractive young man not yet twenty. His close friend paints his portrait and being coerced that right is wrong and wrong is right by Lord Henry Wotton, the true villain of the story, he wishes that the painting would gro...more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996 Fri Jul 11 02:30:59 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 11 02:31:36 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=5297