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The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

Start date: January 1, 2012

Finish date: January 31, 2012

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Dec 28, 2011 Tatum rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, kobo-free-read, read-in-2012

This should be a good book. It gets 2/5 rating from me because I still like the premise if not the execution. If it had been based on execution alone, it would have gotten 1/5.

A young man has his portrait painted and realizes how handsome he is. Impulsively he wishes for the painting to grow old while he remains untouched by time, a wish that comes true. He is influenced to engage in any number of wicked activities by a friend of his and watches the painting become more and more hideous while h ...more

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Oct 14, 2012 Claire Capul rated it really liked it

Shelves: own

Because there is beauty and there is madness in a man.

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Dec 15, 2011 Nilgün rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: group-reads, barrow, 1001-read-bef-y-die

An amazing story, I can recommend to everyone who isn't add jet. Especially who loves philosophy and psychology.

I am on page 75 and I already decide re-read.

ooo such a amazing book, lord hanry wotton is my favorite caracter. ...more

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