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- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2013
- Pages: 124
- ISBN-10: 149485290X
- ISBN-13: 9781494852900
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.7 cm, softcover
- Language: English
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The Picture of Dorian Gray is a lush and vivid novel telling of a young man named Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward. Basil is impressed by Dorian's beauty and becomes infatuated with him, believing his beauty is responsible for a new mode in his art. Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, a friend of Basil's, and becomes enthralled by Lord Henry's world view. Espousing a new hedonism, Lord Henry suggests the only things worth pursuing in life are beauty and fulfillment of the senses. Realizing that one day his beauty will fade, Dorian (whimsically) expresses a desire to sell his soul to ensure the portrait Basil has painted would age rather than he. Dorian's wish is fulfilled, and when he subsequently pursues a life of debauchery, the portrait serves as a reminder of the effect each act has upon his soul, with each sin displayed as a disfigurement of his form, or through a sign of aging.
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- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2013
- Pages: 124
- ISBN-10: 149485290X
- ISBN-13: 9781494852900
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.7 cm, softcover
- Language: English English
The Picture of Dorian Gray is a lush and vivid novel telling of a young man named Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward. Basil is impressed by Dorian's beauty and becomes infatuated with him, believing his beauty is responsible for a new mode in his art. Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, a friend of Basil's, and becomes enthralled by Lord Henry's world view. Espousing a new hedonism, Lord Henry suggests the only things worth pursuing in life are beauty and fulfillment of the senses. Realizing that one day his beauty will fade, Dorian (whimsically) expresses a desire to sell his soul to ensure the portrait Basil has painted would age rather than he. Dorian's wish is fulfilled, and when he subsequently pursues a life of debauchery, the portrait serves as a reminder of the effect each act has upon his soul, with each sin displayed as a disfigurement of his form, or through a sign of aging.
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