Novel · 1890
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
Aya Saleh · Ink & Ivy
Novel · 1890 · English · Victorian
The Picture of Dorian Gray
A portrait ages so its subject need not.
GothicAestheticismVanityCorruptionArtDouble
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Wilde's paradoxes are load-bearing: the novel argues that art is amoral and then punishes a man for believing it.
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