In the wealthy and vain hedonist Dorian Gray, London painter Basil Hallward has found his muse. Only when the portrait of Dorian begins to age, while the man himself remains untouched by time, do they realize they may have made a deal with the devil.
Oscar Wilde’s only novel takes a witty, philosophical, and harrowing look at our obsession with youth and the price we pay for it.
Revised edition: Previously published as The Picture of Dorian Gray, this edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray includes editorial revisions.
A classic I am glad to have read I’m not sure what my expectations were having never read but only watched various versions of Dorian Gray in shows, none of which were accurately faithful to the book. I could see how this would have been considered too risque for audiences at the time it was first published, which makes it an interesting note on how much society has changed. The book was slow moving for about the first 40% of the book and did not even move Dorian’s story along. It was almost entirely about Lord Henry Wotton…
Slow first half, but otherwise a classic psychological horror novel I almost never leave reviews on classic books, because I figure said books are classics for a reason. Their quality is assured if they’ve stood the test of time and remain well-known after all these years, right? Even in the case of “classics” that I don’t enjoy for whatever reason, such as “Tess of the D’ubervilles,” I figure it’s merely a case of personal preference and not quality. So it’s with some degree of hesitation that I leave a review on such a classic as “The…
ISBN 1452896305 is not professionally put together I am getting very tired of ordering what I think are professionally prepared books and finding that they are print-on-demand works probably put together by one person that do not adhere to certain standards of the book industry.Â