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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Laura
A masterpiece by Oscar Wilde.
Laura
A masterpiece by Oscar Wilde. I must agree with Bettie, how many times we will read this thrilling book?
Stephen
A young man, strikingly beautiful and remarkably pure from corrupt influences, sits for a portrait and when that portrait is finished makes a prayer that instead of his changing, the portrait will.

What follows is more than just a Faustian story. Perhaps Dorian comes to realize that man must bear the evidence of his mistakes though life or perhaps not. What we do see is a man who struggles to find something that gives his life meaning when the typical things are stripped away.

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Jailynn
Oct 02, 2008 rated it really liked it
This book is jam packed with great sounding quotable quotes, but I only agree with less than half of them. I marked it as that I really liked it but I can't say that I really liked it, it facinated me. ...more
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