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The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde AD-FREE/PATRON ONLY EARLY ACCESS (Patreon)

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2022-05-27 02:43:14
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2022-05-27 03:40:19
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A completely ridiculous, disjointed, and highly enjoyable novel by the most clever man of the 19th (and probably 20th) century. 

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Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray BOOK REVIEW (ad-free patron only)

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Jorge Alberto Araujo

I first read it in my early twenties, and last year (at 40 years old) I read the Harvard / Belknapp edition of the uncensored text. It became one of my all time favorites. I strongly believe that some books have a greater impact in our lives depending on our age, surroundings and circumstances, and that is true for Dorian Gray. Lord Henry's cynicism strikes harder (and more accurate). Anyway, it's hard to describe and I think you nailed it: it's that kind of book that you either love or can't stand.

Donald Wright

Oscar Wilde's short stories are excellent too! Several of them apparently started out as tales that he invented and told to his two young sons at their bedtime. But they are well worth reading even for adults. There are some marvelous lines in them, even in the fairy tales. I like this one: "the secrets of art are best learned in secret ... Beauty, like Wisdom, loves the lonely worshipper" (from "The Young King" in the collection "A House of Pomegranates"). Of course his wit is on display too!

Donald Wright

Oh, I didn't realize that there was an uncensored text! I'm not sure which one I read. I read Dorian Gray in my early 20s also—and it happened to be during that one week in early spring in Seattle when all the cherry trees were blooming and our neighborhood was redolent with their perfume. Reading Dorian Gray at the same time was like drowning in a vat of scent! I wonder how I would react to it now, decades later.