Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BNC:1001958028
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Union Square & Co.
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781435173125
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Pdf
When handsome young Dorian Gray sees a painter’s stunning portrait of him, he is transfixed by its reflection of his own beauty. He is also troubled by the knowledge that the image in the painting will remain forever youthful and handsome while he himself will grow older and less desirable. He wishes aloud that the roles were reversed, saying that he would give his soul if only the painting would suffer the ravages of time and he were to remain forever young. From that point on, Dorian lives a life of hedonistic indulgence, knowing that only the painting will show his moral corruption.
The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings
Oscar Wilde
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Bantam Classics
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307757685
The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings by Oscar Wilde Pdf
Flamboyant and controversial, Oscar Wilde was a dazzling personality, a master of wit, and a dramatic genius whose sparkling comedies contain some of the most brilliant dialogue ever written for the English stage. Here in one volume are his immensely popular novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray; his last literary work, “The Ballad of Reading Gaol,” a product of his own prison experience; and four complete plays: Lady Windermere’s Fan, his first dramatic success, An Ideal Husband, which pokes fun at conventional morality, The Importance of Being Earnest, his finest comedy, and Salomé, a portrait of uncontrollable love originally written in French and faithfully translated by Richard Ellmann. Every selection appears in its entirety–a marvelous collection of outstanding works by the incomparable Oscar Wilde, who’s been aptly called “a lord of language” by Max Beerbohm.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1551111268
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Pdf
In Oscar Wilde’s famous novel, Dorian Gray is tempted by Henry Wotton to sell his soul in order to hold on to beauty and youth. Dorian succumbs and murders the portrait painter Basil Haliward, who stands between him and his goal. Though in the end vice is punished and virtue rewarded, the novel remains one of the most important expressions of fin de siècle decadence. It is in the preface to the expanded edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray that Wilde coined the most famous expression of his aesthetic: “There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well-written or badly-written. That is all.” Like other Broadview Editions, this edition includes a wide range of materials from the period that help to set the text in context. In particular, the editor locates the text both in relation to elements in the mainstream culture of the day (such as the aesthetes); and in relation to the gay subculture.
Dorian
Will Self
Author : Will Self
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003-06-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780140290561
Dorian by Will Self Pdf
Takes both subject and style seriously. This title features the locations, characters, plot and epigrams transposed from the 1890s to the 1990s.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780192807298
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Pdf
When Dorian Gray has his portrait painted, he is captivated by his own beauty. Set in fin-de-siecle London, this novel traces a path from the studio of painter Basil Hallward to the opium dens of the East End. Combining elements of the supernatural, aestheticism, and the Gothic, this is a work of fiction.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0192815539
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Pdf
Spellbound before his own portrait, Dorian Gray utters a fateful wish. In exchange for eternal youth he gives his soul, to be corrupted by the malign influence of his mentor, the aesthete and hedonist Lord Henry Wotton.
To Paradise
Hanya Yanagihara
Author : Hanya Yanagihara
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 717 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771017902
To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara Pdf
From the author of the classic A LITTLE LIFE, a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, about lovers, family, loss and the elusive promise of utopia. In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of the Free States, where people may live and love whomever they please (or so it seems). The fragile young scion of a distinguished family resists betrothal to a worthy suitor, drawn to a charming music teacher of no means. In a 1993 Manhattan besieged by the AIDS epidemic, a young Hawaiian man lives with his much older, wealthier partner, hiding his troubled childhood and the fate of his father. And in 2093, in a world riven by plagues and governed by totalitarian rule, a powerful scientist’s damaged granddaughter tries to navigate life without him—and solve the mystery of her husband’s disappearances. These three sections are joined in an enthralling and ingenious symphony, as recurring notes and themes deepen and enrich one another: A townhouse in Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village; illness, and treatments that come at a terrible cost; wealth and squalor; the weak and the strong; race; the definition of family, and of nationhood; the dangerous righteousness of the powerful, and of revolutionaries; the longing to find a place in an earthly paradise, and the gradual realization that it can’t exist. What unites not just the characters, but these Americas, are their reckonings with the qualities that make us human: Fear. Love. Shame. Need. Loneliness. TO PARADISE is a fin de siecle novel of marvelous literary effect, but above all it is a work of emotional genius. The great power of this remarkable novel is driven by Yanagihara’s understanding of the aching desire to protect those we love—partners, lovers, children, friends, family and even our fellow citizens—and the pain that ensues when we cannot.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780674057920
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Pdf
Publishes for the first time the author's original, uncensored typescript, in an annotated edition with 60 color illustrations.
Art and the Handicraftsman
Oscar Wilde
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 154829585X
Art and the Handicraftsman by Oscar Wilde Pdf
The fragments of which this lecture is composed are taken entirely from the original manuscripts which have but recently been discovered. It is not certain that they all belong to the same lecture, nor that all were written at the same period. Some portions were written in Philadelphia in 1882.
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : BookRix
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783736806245
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde Pdf
The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
The Novel Cure
Ella Berthoud,Susan Elderkin
Author : Ella Berthoud,Susan Elderkin
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780143190202
The Novel Cure by Ella Berthoud,Susan Elderkin Pdf
A novel is a story, a collection of experiences transmitted from the mind of one to the mind of another. It offers a way to unwind, a way to focus, a way to learn about life—distraction, entertainment, and diversion. But it can also be something much more powerful. When read at the right time in your life, a novel can—quite literally—change it. The Novel Cure is a reminder of that power. To create this apothecary, the authors have trawled through two thousand years of literature for the most brilliant minds and engrossing reads. Structured like a reference book, it allows readers to simply look up their ailment, whether it be agoraphobia, boredom, or midlife crisis, then they are given the name of a novel to read as the antidote.
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798741342763
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde Pdf
One of the greatest books ever written. A splendid masterpiece...
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Oscar Wilde (Classics, Literature) Annotated
Oscar Wilde
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798516848766
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Oscar Wilde (Classics, Literature) Annotated by Oscar Wilde Pdf
The Picture of Dorian Gray is the story of one beautiful, innocent young man''s seduction, moral corruption, and eventual downfall. We meet our three central characters at the beginning of the book, when painter Basil Hallward and his close friend, Lord Henry Wotton, are discussing the subject of Basil''s newest painting, a gorgeous young thing named Dorian Gray. Basil and Henry discuss just how perfectly perfect Dorian is--he''s totally innocent and completely good, as well as being the most beautiful guy ever to walk the earth. Lord Henry wants to meet this mysterious boy, but Basil doesn''t want him to; for some reason, he''s afraid of what will happen to Dorian if Lord Henry digs his claws into him. However, Lord Henry gets his wish--Dorian shows up that very afternoon, and, over the course of the day, Henry manages to totally change Dorian''s perspective on the world. From that point on, Dorian''s previously innocent point of view is dramatically different--he begins to see life as Lord Henry does, as a succession of pleasures in which questions of good and evil are irrelevant. Basil finishes his portrait of Dorian, and gives it to the young man, who keeps it in his home, where he can admire his own beauty. Lord Henry continues to exert his influence over Dorian, to Basil''s dismay. Dorian grows more and more distant from Basil, his former best friend, and develops his own interests. One of these interests is Sybil Vane, a young, exceptionally beautiful, exceptionally talented--and exceptionally poor--actress. Though she''s stuck performing in a terrible, third-rate theatre, she''s a truly remarkable artist, and her talent and beauty win over Dorian. He falls dramatically in love with her, and she with him. For a moment, it seems like everything will turn out wonderfully. However, this is just the beginning of Dorian''s story. Once he and Sybil are engaged, her talent suddenly disappears--she''s so overcome with her passionate love for Dorian that none of her roles on stage seem important to her anymore. This destroys Dorian''s love for her, and he brutally dumps her. Back home, he notices a something different in his portrait--it looks somehow crueler. In the meanwhile, the distraught Sybil commits suicide, just as Dorian decides to return to her and take back his terrible words. Sybil''s suicide changes everything. At first, Dorian feels horrible... but he rather quickly changes his tune. On Lord Henry''s suggestion, Dorian reads a mysterious "yellow book," a decadent French novel that makes him reevaluate his whole belief system. The protagonist of the book lives his life in pursuit of sensual pleasures, which intrigues Dorian. From this moment on, Dorian is a changed man. Dorian starts to live as hedonistically as his wicked mentor, Lord Henry, does. The only thing that documents this turn for the worst is the portrait, which alarmingly begins to exhibit the inward corruption of Dorian''s soul; the beautiful image changes, revealing new scars and physical flaws with each of Dorian''s dastardly actions. As years pass, the man in the picture grows more and more hideous, as Dorian himself stays unnaturally young and beautiful. Rumors start to spread about the various people whose lives Dorian has ruined, and his formerly good reputation is destroyed. On Dorian''s 38th birthday, he encounters Basil, who desperately asks his former friend if all the horrifying rumors about him are true. Dorian finally snaps and shows Basil the portrait, in which the horrible truth about his wicked nature is revealed. Basil recoils, and begs Dorian to pray for forgiveness. In response, Dorian murders Basil, stabbing him brutally. He blackmails another of his former friends into disposing of the body. Dorian retreats to an opium den after dealing with all of the evidence, where he encounters an enemy he didn''t know he had--Sybil Vane''s brother, James...
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1731118627
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Pdf
The Picture of Dorian Gray is about a young man named Dorian Gray who has a portrait painted of himself. The artist, Basil Hallward, thinks Dorian Gray is very beautiful, and becomes obsessed with Dorian. One day in Basil's garden, Dorian Gray meets a man named Lord Henry Wotton. Lord Henry Wotton makes Dorian Gray believe that the only thing important in life is beauty. However, Dorian realizes that he will become less beautiful as he grows older. He wishes the portrait Basil painted would become old in his place. Dorian then sells his soul so he can be beautiful forever, but not on purpose.Dorian's wish comes true. However, every time Dorian does something evil, mean, or selfish, his picture ages. For 18 years, Dorian does not age. He does many bad things, while his portrait becomes more aged with each bad deed. Later on, Dorian decides to stop doing bad things in the hopes that this will make his portrait become beautiful again, but it only makes it worse. Dorian thinks that only a full confession will make the portrait beautiful again. However, he does not feel guilty for anything he has done. So Dorian picks up a knife and destroys the portrait.When his servants hear a scream from Dorian's room, they call the police. The police find Dorian's body on the floor with a stab wound in his heart. His body has become very aged. However, the portrait has returned to the way it was when it was first painted.