The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Original 1890 Edition (A Oscar Wilde Classic Novel)

Incredible imagery and beautifully written this tale of a haunted wish is compelling and full of intrigue. I’ve read it several times and never tire of it’s convoluted tale

Great book but “A Oscar Wilde Classic Novel” is incorrect and it’s on the actual cover of the book

Lovely book. It’s the original 1890 edition. If you’re a person whose into the arts, poetry or just a creative person you’ll enjoy this novel. With some gothic suspense of course. Has meaningful quotes that very much relates into today’s times. One of my fav quote so far is- “Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” All I can say is too bad it wasn’t longer book but still a great read.

The Picture of Dorian Gray was somewhat painful to read. I saw it on a list of kindle books offered for free and thought it was a good chance to read one of the classics. Unfortunately, the writing style is sterotypically 'old English' (what I consider drawn out sentences and sensless plot).Genre: Fiction. Gothic fiction--a dark telling of a amoral individual whose life choices give the reader pause to consider their own ethics and mortality.Plot: The story of Dorian Gray is probably pretty well known already: a self absorbed young man gains eternal youth and beauty while a portrait of him ages and shows signs of corruption. Gray proceeds to live a life of sin with almost no consequences until the end. Although there are a lot of unneccesary sentences and scenes in this story, the details of Gray's sinful life are not well documented. Not a lot happens at all, actually.Characters: Not developed very well. There's a moral guy (Basil), a 'hedonist' (Henry) and a bad guy (Gray). We know that Dorian Gray does bad things and has little regard for others, but we never live this or feel any anguish for those he hurt. I struggled in the beginning keeping track of Henry and Basil because there are a lot of pronouns thrown around and Wilde kept switching from first to last name to identify them.Grammar/Writing: Cut this book in half and it would be much better. There is so much filler, and this is especially annoying because there is little substance to begin with. I skipped what felt like an entire chapter while Wilde just rambled on about all of Dorian Gray's belongings. Writing style is hard to get through because people don't write that way anymore, but I do not remember actual errors.Cost: Kindle provides a version of this for free. I would not pay for this, but the price varies and you can get a new physical copy for $4 which is not unreasonable.I give it three stars because it wasn't a long read, and it is one of the classics. The subject gives you a chance to reflect on your own ethics and morality should you so desire.

The quality of the book is good and as expected!

This book was written over 100 years ago and is on my challenge list. It wasn't very long but took me a while to read because it was pretty deep and the some of the vernacular is different. I had to stop a lot and really think about what the author was trying to say. This book put great value on looks as if it were the end all and be all of everything wonderful. It's interesting to see how things were looked at and I can't help wishing I could speak to this author and ask him if he truly felt this way and if so ask again, Who decideds what's beautiful?The Picture of Dorian Gray.The name says it all. It really is about his picture and what it represented at the time. It feels as if there is only one main character and it isn’t dorian gray. He is the object that everyone is talking about in the book but its not really about him.But about his life and how the other players have influenced him or it. Quite philisophical really. I love to talk about that kind of introspective stuff. The intangables that people have ingrained in their minds but don’t speak of.How our insides don't necessarily match our outsides. He started out quite normal, if a little vain. The first half of the book was slow and I ended up reading a couple of books in between. The last half picked up so quick I finished it in one sitting.Dorian Gray is an idiot in my opinion. He let others influence him till he had no sense of self. Then when he messed up he rationalized it to himself. If he didn't like what he was doing he did something else. He was a spoiled rich kid with no sense of honor.Everyone knows this story right? I'm not really spoiling for you am I? Spoiled rich kid sits for a pianting. A painting so wonderful in its youth and beauty that Dorian mouths a prayer (or a curse depending on how you look at it) that he forever remain as this picture. And so the story begins. He is in love with himself. Pure vanity. I could really go on and on talking about this wonderful book, but then I would deprive you are reading it for yourself. BTW, it's free.The ending really sang to me. I loved it and found it entirely fitting.Favorite quotes:The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.But the picture? What to say of that? It held the secret of his life, and told his story. It taught him to love his own beauty. Would it teach him to loathe his own soul?We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and thinks too much to be beautiful.