Rating: 4/5
05/07/2020 - 05/07/2020
“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
I put off reading this because I was waiting for it to be assigned to me for a class. Surprisingly, it never happened. Luckily, my book club chose this for our May read. I really enjoyed it? I absolutely did not expect the plot to be so murdery. It was great!
Synopsis
Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde’s story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author’s most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray’s moral disintegration caused a scandal when it first appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel’s corrupting influence, he responded that there is, in fact, “a terrible moral in Dorian Gray.” Just a few years later, the book and the aesthetic/moral dilemma it presented became issues in the trials occasioned by Wilde’s homosexual liaisons, which resulted in his imprisonment. Of Dorian Gray’s relationship to autobiography, Wilde noted in a letter, “Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be—in other ages, perhaps
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