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The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories

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Oscar Wilde's classic The Picture of Dorian Gray and three additional stories

"Oh! In what a wild hour of madness he had killed his friend! How ghastly the mere memory of the scene! He saw it all again. Each hideous detail came back to him with added horror. Out of the black cave of ...

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(Oscar Wilde's classic The Picture of Dorian Gray and three additional stories

"Oh! In what a wild hour of madness he had killed his friend! How ghastly the mere memory of the scene! He saw it all again. Each hideous detail came back to him with added horror. Out of the black cave of time, terrible and swathed in scarlet, rose the image of his sin." In their ideal of an exquisitely sensitive temperament that thrills to fine shadings in sensation, the principles

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Should the changing painting be taken literal or was it in the perception of Dorian and others?

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"The Picture of Dorian Gray"by Lorraine H. (see profile) 06/03/11

A classic. What's in your attic?

"Corruption???"by LINDA c. (see profile) 11/15/10

So, who corrupted whom? Was it Basil, was it Lord Henry? Was it Dorian himself? I thought this book was so well written and the discussion was fantastic.

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