A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."
As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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书排版紧凑，轻巧便于携带，因此好多章节都是在火车上完成的。然而这本书并没有安慰我的旅途，并没有给我愉悦的阅读感受。很显然，王尔德并不是一个擅于讲故事的人，情节的架构不免突兀和失真，人物形象并不饱满立体。Lord Henry在某种程度上有作者自身的影子，是一个擅于玩文...
评分书排版紧凑，轻巧便于携带，因此好多章节都是在火车上完成的。然而这本书并没有安慰我的旅途，并没有给我愉悦的阅读感受。很显然，王尔德并不是一个擅于讲故事的人，情节的架构不免突兀和失真，人物形象并不饱满立体。Lord Henry在某种程度上有作者自身的影子，是一个擅于玩文...
评分书排版紧凑，轻巧便于携带，因此好多章节都是在火车上完成的。然而这本书并没有安慰我的旅途，并没有给我愉悦的阅读感受。很显然，王尔德并不是一个擅于讲故事的人，情节的架构不免突兀和失真，人物形象并不饱满立体。Lord Henry在某种程度上有作者自身的影子，是一个擅于玩文...
评分书排版紧凑，轻巧便于携带，因此好多章节都是在火车上完成的。然而这本书并没有安慰我的旅途，并没有给我愉悦的阅读感受。很显然，王尔德并不是一个擅于讲故事的人，情节的架构不免突兀和失真，人物形象并不饱满立体。Lord Henry在某种程度上有作者自身的影子，是一个擅于玩文...
评分书排版紧凑，轻巧便于携带，因此好多章节都是在火车上完成的。然而这本书并没有安慰我的旅途，并没有给我愉悦的阅读感受。很显然，王尔德并不是一个擅于讲故事的人，情节的架构不免突兀和失真，人物形象并不饱满立体。Lord Henry在某种程度上有作者自身的影子，是一个擅于玩文...
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Wilde is a genius!
评分恩，王尔德写给成人看的童话，所以不是很难，可是寓意很深呢～～～
评分看的英文版，其实只是看懂了大概情节，印象书中段有大段描写没看懂，大抵讲的是Dorian是怎么堕落的
评分" I should fancy that the tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self-denial.Beautiful things,like beautiful sins, are the privilege of the rich."
评分overwhelming
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