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juushikaTitle: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Author: Oscar Wilde
Published: New York: Modern Library, 2004 (1890)
Rating: 4 of 5
Page Count: 254
Total Page Count: 170,565
Text Number: 499
Read Because: personal enjoyment, on my bookshelf/on Project Gutenberg
Review: Young, beautiful, promising Dorian Gray has his portrait painted—and makes a wish that the painting will age in his stead. This is as good as it could be and as I expected it would be. Wilde's voice has a tendency to run away with itself, but he gives that tendency purpose and his witticisms become core to the book's themes. The Picture of Dorian Gray is a substantial metaphor, expressed in tones that are interchangeably ornate, haunting, playful, and even cruel; it's a delight to read while maintaining self-aware insight. I expected I'd love this, and I did, which I suppose is all I can add to what's been said about this book.
(So help me, I even like Eugenides's introduction! I never like introductions!)
Author: Oscar Wilde
Published: New York: Modern Library, 2004 (1890)
Rating: 4 of 5
Page Count: 254
Total Page Count: 170,565
Text Number: 499
Read Because: personal enjoyment, on my bookshelf/on Project Gutenberg
Review: Young, beautiful, promising Dorian Gray has his portrait painted—and makes a wish that the painting will age in his stead. This is as good as it could be and as I expected it would be. Wilde's voice has a tendency to run away with itself, but he gives that tendency purpose and his witticisms become core to the book's themes. The Picture of Dorian Gray is a substantial metaphor, expressed in tones that are interchangeably ornate, haunting, playful, and even cruel; it's a delight to read while maintaining self-aware insight. I expected I'd love this, and I did, which I suppose is all I can add to what's been said about this book.
(So help me, I even like Eugenides's introduction! I never like introductions!)
