A Summary and Analysis of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of . . .
The Picture of Dorian Gray is Oscar Wilde’s one novel, published originally in 1890 (as a serial) and then in book form the following year. The novel is at once an example of late Victorian Gothic horror and, in some ways, the greatest English-language novel about decadence and aestheticism, or ‘art for art’s sake’. . To show how these themes and movements find their way into the novel . . .
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