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The Picture of Dorian Gray
| Author: | Wilde, Oscar
Shared by: Daniel, ebookhood |
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| Tags: | Classic fiction Classics Fiction Fiction / Classics Literature - Classics / Criticism Literature: Classics | |
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| Language: | English | |
| Number of downloads: | 374 | |
| Number of readers who love this book: | 5 | |
| Source: | http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/174 | |
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A 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... Show all...
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... "How fearful," he muttered, and a shudder ran through him. "No," said Dorian Gray, "there is nothing fearful about it. It is one of the great romantic tragedies of the age. As a rule, people who act lead the most commonplace lives. They are good husbands, or faithful wives, or something tedious. You know what I mean--middle-class virtue and all that kind of thing. How different Sibyl was! She lived her finest tragedy. She was always a heroine. The last night she played-- the night you saw her--she acted badly because she had known the reality of love....
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