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Wilde Oscar The Picture Of Dorian Gray. Oscar Wilde The Picture Of Dorian Gray In a fury, Dorian picks up the knife he used to stab Basil Hallward and attempts to destroy the painting By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) The Picture of Dorian Gray is Oscar Wilde's one novel, published originally in 1890 (as a serial) and then in book form the following year.The novel is at once an example of late Victorian Gothic horror and, in some ways, the greatest English-language novel about decadence and aestheticism, or 'art for art's sake'.

It explores themes ofbeauty, hedonism, and the consequences of living a life focused solely on sensory experience through the experiences of its main character, Dorian Gray. Wilde soon expanded it and republished it as a novel, including a short preface justifying his art.

Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray Review

The Picture of Dorian Gray is a philosophical fiction and gothic horror novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde.A shorter novella-length version was published in the July 1890 issue of the American periodical Lippincott's Monthly Magazine The novel, the only one written by Wilde, had six additional chapters when it was released as a book in 1891 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, published in 1890, stands as a classic exploration of morality and the consequences of unchecked desires

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Penguin Books Australia. The Picture of Dorian Gray, moral fantasy novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde, published in an early form in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890 Wilde's book, The Picture of Dorian Gray, played an important and damaging part in these legal cases

Read The Picture of Dorian Gray Online by Oscar Wilde Books. On the floor lies the body of their master—an old man, horribly wrinkled and disfigured, with a knife plunged into his. Oscar Wilde was one of the most important English-language writers of the nineteenth century