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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Oscar Wilde's novel follows a young man whose portrait ages and bears the marks of his sins while he remains outwardly youthful, exploring vanity, morality, and corruption. Readers drawn to Gothic horror and classic literary fiction will find it rewarding.
Note: the metadata lists 1994, but this work was first published in 1890.
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in the emerging Aestheticism movement of the late 19th century and is widely regarded as the greatest playwright of the Victorian era. Wilde is best known for his Gothic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), his epigrams, plays and bedtime stories for children, as well as his criminal conviction in 1895 for gross indecency and for practicing homosexual acts.
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