Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray Reviews

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Good Points: The authors ability to paint a picture of what everything looks like

Bad Points: The whole story!

General comments: Although having to read this book has utterly made me want to kill the author, thankfully he is already dead! I utterly think i might have had to. This book Sucks! I am having to read it for a class i am taking and absolutely hate it! I am an avid reader and love reading many different types of books, but come on! This one literally just sucks..

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This is an excelllent novel, Wilde's only one. Published in 1890 it caused a public outcry for its discussion of decadent phiosophy and homosexual undertones. A must for the horror fan, the lover of Wilde, the student of nineteenth century literature, or any one who loves a good read!

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There is not much I can add to Kirsty's review. I just want to gush about this novel.

Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray is one of my all time favourites. It ticks all the right boxes. Intrigue, mystery, sex appeal, corruption, the supernatural, art, Victorian Gothic and intelligent writing.

One you can read over and over.

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"It is the spectator, and not life that art really mirrors".

In "The Picture of Dorian Gray" the wonderful fop Oscar Wilde paints a bleak picture of the repellent side of human nature as the beautiful hero Dorian Gray ages not one jot between lewd acts and malefaction but the sinister portrait of him hanging in the attic takes on all the pestilence, age and filth that befits the face of one so lost in hedonism.

That portrait is an iconoclastic image of the age: it matters little if you h ...