Unabridged version of The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde, offered here for chump change. Wilde’s only novel was a breakthrough of psychological horror in the Victorian age.
Is it about the author himself and his life of destructive indulgence? Is it about the dark side of mankind? Or the ability to appreciate the pleasures of life? Decide for yourself in this classic that sets the intellectual bar for other psychological tales.
Contents
THE PREFACE 3
CHAPTER 1 3
CHAPTER 2 9
CHAPTER 3 17
CHAPTER 4 23
CHAPTER 5 30
CHAPTER 6 35
CHAPTER 7 39
CHAPTER 8 44
CHAPTER 9 51
CHAPTER 10 55
CHAPTER 11 59
CHAPTER 12 68
CHAPTER 13 71
CHAPTER 14 74
CHAPTER 15 80
CHAPTER 16 85
CHAPTER 17 89
CHAPTER 18 92
CHAPTER 19 97
CHAPTER 20 101
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As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment."
Read by actor, comedian, novelist, journalist, screenwriter Stephen Fry, Dorian Gray's dilemma comes alive. He has also acted in a variety of films including A Fish Called Wanda, Peter's Friends, and The Wind in the Willows.
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