The Picture of Dorian Gray

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On its first publication The Picture of Dorian Gray was regarded as dangerously modern in its depiction of fin-de-sicle decadence. In this updated version of the Faust story, the tempter is Lord Henry Wotton, who lives selfishly for amoral pleasure; Dorian's good angel is the portrait painter Basil Hallward, whom Dorian murders. The book highlights the tension between the polished surface of high society and the life of secret vice. Although sin is punished in the end the book has a flavour of the elegantly perverse.

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Matheus

on 30/4/13

Peguei esse livro para ler na falta de outro. Tinha acabado de encomendar um pela Saraiva e até que ele chegasse eu precisava de uma coisa para ler. E achei The Picture of Dorian Gray em uma estante perdida na casa. E só. Sem pretensão nenhuma. "There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.Books are well written, or badly written. That is all(...) We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that... leia mais