A review by blairmahoney
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

5.0

Finally got around to reading this. It's quite brilliant in all sorts of ways, not least for the way Wilde's prose contributes to the decadent atmosphere. Interesting to see so many of the aphorisms in Wilde's plays have their origin here (he was a self-plagiariser), as in "her hair turned quite gold with grief" which he uses again in The Importance of Being Earnest. Lord Henry Wotton is obviously the model for Algernon in that play as well.