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The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

Start date: April 1, 2024

Finish date: May 1, 2024

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Revisit the Shelf Group Read, April 2024
Previous Group Reads:
- Revisit the Shelf Group Read Oct 2021
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- Revisit the Shelf Group Read, July 2014
- Revisit the Shelf Group Read, October 2013
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Nov 30, 2016 Katy rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics

I've tried to read this book several times before and never got more than half-way. The first half does drag for me, even with the beautiful writing and the ingenious plot. The last half of the book really put it together for me. Highly recommended. ...more

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Mar 03, 2015 Nea rated it liked it

Shelves: fiction, classics, literary, philosophy, gothic-fiction

I love Oscar Wilde's writing, even with such a strange concept as this book. Perfectly beautiful Dorian Gray doesn't age or show physical signs of his poor life choices; instead, the secrets of his innerself manifest on the face of his infamous picture. That's the basic premise, but The Picture of Dorian Gray also contains a lot of philosophical ramblings from a secondary character. That took away from the book a bit, in my opinion. ...more

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Nov 13, 2016 Glynn rated it it was amazing

Shelves: history-book-club-readathon-2017, fiction, history-book-club-ireland-challenge

In the preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde writes “Books are well written or badly written. That is all.” This book is very well written. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. The book requires lots of concentration. There are tons of references to people, places, and things that had meaning in the 1800s but that today we need to work at to derive their meaning. The book is ostensibly about a painting and the subject of that painting but there is a lot more going on. There is deep phil ...more

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