The Picture of Dorian Gray in Around the Year in 52 Books

Jun 25, 2019 Blaine rated it liked it

Shelves: 2019, e-book

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.

The Picture of Dorian Gray revolves around three main characters. Basil Hallward is an artist. He paints a portrait of his muse, a beautiful young man named Dorian Gray. On the day the painting is finished, Basil introduces Dorian to Lord Henry Wotton, a hedonist who argues to Dorian that a life of sensual pleasure is the only life worth living. Dorian instantly agrees, and momentarily states that he would sell his soul so that the picture, ...more

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Mar 27, 2011 Harini rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: i-own, classics, favorites, 1001-books, 200-bbc, horror, gothic

"It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about".

"But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face".

"If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat".

"Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild st ...more

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Sep 20, 2011 Francisca Viegas rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: read-in-portuguese, borrowed, classics, 2011

opinião em breve.

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Dec 30, 2009 Nikki rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, fiction, own, 2018

Rarely have I come across a book so pretentiously written. It was clearly Wilde's writing, but on steroids. The style and the commentary on society were reflective of that which I saw in my favorite of his, The Importance of Being Earnest. But the entire book was written in quips. The quipiness was suffocating, allowing for barely anything but the quips themselves. Yes, there was some characterization and plot but they were drowning, drowning. The story clearly reflects Wilde and his life at the ...more

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