Online book review:
The Picture of Dorian Gray is Oscar Wilde's only known novel. The work first appeared in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890, and it was revised and published as a novel the following year. The work was considered scandalous and immoral when it first appeared, but it was really a way for Wilde to write about his philosophy of art.
quotes from the book:
•"The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play."
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray Ch. 1
•"You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know."
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray Ch. 2
•"Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different."
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray Ch. 3
•"There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realise his conception of the beautiful."
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray Ch. 11
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