false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170453971m/56132.jpg 9123 2 "Oh! In what a wild hour of madness he had killed his friend! How ghastly the mere memory of the scene! He saw it all again. Each hideous detail came back to him with added horror. Out of the black cave of time, terrible and swathed in scarlet, rose the image of his sin." In their ideal of an exquisitely sensitive temperament that thrills to fine shadings in sensation, the principles of the aesthetic (or "decadent") movement are well suited to the tale of terror. No story exemplifies this better than Oscar Wilde's <i>The Picture of Dorian Gray</i>. The sparkling wit and zest for life of Wilde's characters combine with cold-blooded acts of horror to generate a deliciously twisted sense of elegance and evil, civilization and degradation. Oscar Wilde, like Edgar Allan Poe, shows us that what we find loathsome and frightening can also be beautiful. 6154933 1890 The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories total:282|5:87|4:121|3:54|2:18|1:2| 282 1119 415 30 2 0 false false Mon Feb 23 19:06:36 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 19:07:10 -0800 2009
One hundred and ninety pages of political masturbation disguised as a supernatural suspense story. Of the three main characters we have; Dorian Gray, who is a brainless puppet the personifies vanity; Basil Hallward, the artist who painted the fabled portrait and repre...more...]]> 4 0 false true Sat Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 07:24:18 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 08:56:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Aug 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 10:27:43 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 14:45:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 22:31:19 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 15:14:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Aug 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 20:49:17 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 22:08:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false true Wed Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 29 10:42:59 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 15 19:41:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue May 27 11:28:05 -0700 2008 Tue May 27 11:28:51 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 27 12:39:14 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 27 12:46:24 -0700 2008 Man, while peppering in the unnaturalness of humanity and the state of art and beauty . Did I mention how incredibly funny it is? I’m not sure if I got the immense humor in the supercilious Lord Henry, ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Nov 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Oct 06 13:15:22 -0700 2009 Fri Nov 20 15:38:21 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Aug 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 08:21:26 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 08:24:36 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999 Tue Oct 20 13:50:54 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 13:52:21 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Jan 31 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Oct 19 06:27:48 -0700 2007 Fri Feb 22 05:31:41 -0800 2008
Once I got past the archaic language, I was really flying through this. You really love/hate Dorian by the end of th...more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Aug 18 16:54:34 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 16:56:11 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Nov 22 12:14:49 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 22 12:35:24 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Tue Jun 17 11:11:25 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 17 11:15:22 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 12 18:10:15 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 23 15:16:45 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Fri Oct 30 15:38:59 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 20:14:31 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Oct 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 08:19:57 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 15:33:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Tue Jun 09 13:47:46 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 13:48:05 -0700 2009 4 0 true false Fri Mar 27 18:24:13 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 27 18:24:13 -0700 2009 3 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=56132