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The Picture of Dorian Gray is a fine piece of literature- a tale of excess, of corruption, of decay and of facades.
Basil Hallward, an artist, paints a picture of Dorian Gary, a handsome and vain young man, whom the artist is besotted with. Dorian Gray sells his soul for eternal youth, in a Faustian bargain, whereby all the age , decay corruption will show in the picture , while Grey’s appearance will stay eternally young and fresh.
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Encouraged by the hedonistic cynic Lord Henry Wotton, Gray embarks on a life of corruption, decadence and cruelty. Lord Henry is also the vehicle through which Wilde put down his many uniquely Wildesque epigrams into the novel, such as ” Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing, Basil. Conscience is the trade name of the firm. That is all”; ” Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love. It is the faithless who know love’s tragedies”; “There is only one thing worse than being talked about and that is not being talked about” ; “The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.” ; ” It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But it is better to be good than to be ugly.” And ” As for the virtuous poor , one can pity them of course , but one cannot possibly admire them”.
The bargain made by Gray can only lead to eventual destruction , and the novel is a statement by Wilde on humanity and society , in the cavalier and irreverent way that only Wilde could.
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Info For The Picture of Dorian Gray (Collector’s Library)
- Hardcover: 287 pages ( Download PDF :
) - Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1904633153
- ISBN-13: 978-1904633150
- Publisher: Collector’s Library; New edition (October 1, 2009)
- Author : Oscar Wilde
About the Author
Oscar Fingal O’Flaherty Wills Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854. He studied at Trinity College Dublin and then at Magdalen College Oxford where he started the cult of ‘Aestheticism’, which involves making an art of life. Following his marriage to Constance Lloyd in 1884, he published several books of stories ostensibly for children and one novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891). Wilde’s first success as a playwright was with Lady Windemere’s Fan in 1892. He followed this up with A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, all performed on the London stage between 1892 and 1895. However Wilde’s homosexual relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas was exposed by the young man’s father, the Marquis of Queensbury. Wilde brought a libel suit against Queensbury but lost and was sentenced to two year’s imprisonment. He was released in 1897 and fled to France where he died a broken man in 1900.
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