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The picture of Dorian Gray

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lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden.

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F Wil p

Publisher

Los Angeles : Dover Publications, Inc.., 1993

Collation

166 p.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-486-27807-0

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813

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Subject(s)

Conduct of life - Fiction
English - Classical literature
Portraits - Fiction
Youthfulness - Fiction

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