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This reminded me so much of the experience of reading Frankenstein. It was a story I thought I knew all the basics of and then how it actually unfolded was surprising. I had thought Dorian at some point would make a deal with the devil. That it was a prayer presumably offered and granted by god was surprising. I found most of what Wilde said through the characters to be untrue. And I had a hard time buying Sybil's suicide - after only a week? That she was playing Juliet, another teenage love and
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"Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing."
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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 c ...more
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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 c ...more
A wonderfully written and intriguing read.
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