By Oscar Wilde
Introduction by means of Jeffrey Eugenides
Written in his distinctively marvelous demeanour, Oscar Wilde’s tale of a modern younger guy who sells his soul for everlasting adolescence and wonder is the author’s most well liked paintings. the story of Dorian Gray’s ethical disintegration prompted a scandal whilst it first seemed in 1890, yet notwithstanding Wilde used to be attacked for the novel’s corrupting influence, he answered that there's, in reality, “a bad ethical in Dorian Gray.” quite a few years later, the publication and the aesthetic/moral difficulty it awarded turned matters within the trials occasioned via Wilde’s gay liaisons, which ended in his imprisonment. Of Dorian Gray’s dating to autobiography, Wilde famous in a letter, “Basil Hallward is what i feel i'm: Lord Henry what the realm thinks me: Dorian what i want to be—in different a while, perhaps.”
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All I want now is to look at life. " CHAPTER 4 One afternoon, a month later, Dorian Gray was reclining in a luxurious arm-chair, in the little library of Lord Henry's house in Mayfair. It was, in its way, a very charming room, with its high panelled wainscoting of olive-stained oak, its cream-coloured frieze and ceiling of raised plasterwork, and its brickdust felt carpet strewn with silk, longfringed Persian rugs. On a tiny satinwood table stood a statuette by Clodion, and beside it lay a copy of Les Cent Nouvelles, bound for Margaret of Valois by Clovis Eve and powdered with the gilt daisies that Queen had selected for her device.
Come, Sibyl," said her brother impatiently. He hated his mother's affectations. They went out into the flickering, wind-blown sunlight and strolled down the dreary Euston Road. The passersby glanced in wonder at the sullen heavy youth who, in coarse, ill-fitting clothes, was in the company of such a graceful, refined-looking girl. He was like a common gardener walking with a rose. Jim frowned from time to time when he caught the inquisitive glance of some stranger. He had that dislike of being stared at, which comes on geniuses late in life and never leaves the commonplace.
When all that is settled, I shall take a West End theatre and bring her out properly. " "Yes, she will. " "Let me see. To-day is Tuesday. Let us fix to-morrow. " "All right. " "Not eight, Harry, please. Half-past six. We must be there before the curtain rises. " "Half-past six! What an hour! It will be like having a meat-tea, or reading an English novel. It must be seven. No gentleman dines before seven. Shall you see Basil between this and then? " "Dear Basil! I have not laid eyes on him for a week.