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	The Picture of Dorian Gray Summary
		Dorian met and fell madly in love with Sibyl Vane, a beautiful and talented actress who was portraying Juliet in a cheap theatrical troupe.
		Dorian coldly shunned her, admitting that his love for her had been killed, and vowed that he would see her no more.
		It was Dorian Gray, who, in a miscarried struggle to kill his conscience, had killed himself.
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		The Picture of Dorian Gray first appeared in print in 1890,
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	Oscar Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray
		Dorian, who at last discovers in himself the vestiges of a conscience, resents having any conscience at all, and so projects that conscience into the picture.
		Dorian is the now hideous portrait; it is his other self.
		The fantasy of Dorian Gray's portrait is not a Faustian story of a hero giving up life for knowledge, but a fl fairy tale in which a spoiled boy gets his one wish -- endless youthfulness and sensuality -- and becomes a suicide because he cannot handle its implications.
	www.victorianweb.org /books/suicide/06g.html (1337 words)

	Full text and plot summary of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
		The Picture of Dorian Gray was arch-aesthete Oscar Wilde’s only novel, although he wrote a number of poems and children’s stories before it was published in 1890 (in Lippincott’s Magazine) and became a very successful playwright in the 1890s themselves.
		The picture of the title is a splendid work painted by Basil Hallward of the orphaned boy Dorian Gray who is the heir to a great fortune.
		Dorian enters and declares that he would give his soul if he were always to be young and the painting instead would grow old.
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	The Picture of Dorian Gray - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dorian is selected for his remarkable physical beauty, and Basil becomes strongly infatuated with Dorian, believing that his beauty is responsible for a new mode of art.
		Dorian rejects her, cruelly saying that her beauty was in her art, and if she could no longer act, he was no longer interested in her.
		Aestheticism is a strong theme in The Picture of Dorian Gray, and is tied in with the concept of the double life.
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		Gray?' Neither of us could help laughing, and we became friends at once." "Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one," said the young lord, plucking another daisy.
		He felt that the eyes of Dorian Gray were fixed on him, and the consciousness that amongst his audience there was one whose temperament he wished to fascinate seemed to give his wit keenness and to lend colour to his imagination.
		Dorian Gray never took his gaze off him, but sat like one under a spell, smiles chasing each other over his lips and wonder growing grave in his darkening eyes.
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	Amazon.de: The Picture of Dorian Gray: English Books: Oscar Wilde (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Zusammen mit Dorians Ableiten zur dunklen Seite der Macht, ergibt sich eine bitterböse Satire der spätviktorianischen Gesellschaft.
		The Picture of Dorian Gray ist nicht umsonst ein Klassiker der Weltliteratur.
		Upon its initial publication in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890, "The Picture of Dorian Gray" was widely scorned as immoral by a public neither familiar with nor particularly open to the concepts of Aestheticism and its mockery of middle class morality, and repulsed by the thinly veiled homoerotic relationship of the novel's protagonists.
	www.amazon.de /Picture-Dorian-Gray-Oscar-Wilde/dp/0812567110 (2007 words)

	Notes on The Picture of Dorian Gray
		Dorian, spellbound by Basil's portrait and Lord Henry's wit and wisdom, expresses the desire to be forever young, and a willingness to give his soul for it.
		Dorian meets an actress Sibyl Vane, is smitten with her performances of Shakespearean heroines and her beauty; they fall in love and plan to marry.
		Dorian "makes over" his life as an artistic plethora of pleasurable indulgent sensations, heedless of normative ethics, but at a terrible cost: people die, lives are ruined, and a man's personality cleaves in two.
	www.turksheadreview.com /library/notes-doriangray.html (2404 words)

	EUFS: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
		The film The Picture of Dorian Gray is an adaptation of a short story by Oscar Wilde (a famous and controversial playwright, poet and writer in the nineteenth century, for those who just might not know).
		When Dorian Gray (Hurd Hatfield: El Cid, Her Alibi), an eloquent, handsome young man, has his portrait painted by his friend Basil Hallward (Lowell Gilmore: King Solomon's Mines, Lone Star), he is struck by the timeless and unchanging beauty of the art.
		The Picture of Dorian Gray traces the deterioration of Gray's soul from youthful, innocent and beautiful to corrupt, ancient and ugly.
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		Dorian is corrupted and horrible, and yet at the same time, one almost thinks he may suddenly stop and try to turn back.
		Upon its initial publication in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890, "The Picture of Dorian Gray" was widely scorned as immoral by a public neither familiar with nor particularly open to the concepts of Aestheticism and its mockery of middle class morality, and repulsed by the thinly veiled homoerotic relationship of the novel's protagonists.
		Dorian understands that his lifestyle of upscale parties with London's elite, and his friendship with Lord Henry is not all that it seems to be.
	www.amazon.ca /Picture-Dorian-Gray-Oscar-Wilde/dp/0375751513 (2152 words)

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		Dorian Gray himself could be a literary symbol for John Gray, reputed to be Wilde’s first male lover.
		When a furious Dorian confronts her about this, she explains that the love she formerly displayed in her characters is only for him now.
		In truth, Dorian never loved Sybil Vane (a symbol of Gray’s vanity), but instead was infatuated with her art, her beauty, and her achievements.
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	Charity's Place.com > The Picture of Dorian Gray
		Dorian Gray (Hurd Hatfield) was a handsome, gentle, and naive young man. He knew evil existed, but it could not penetrate his heart or soul.
		Dorian was scheduled for a sitting that afternoon, and knowing Lord Henry so well, Basil was loathe to introduce the two of them.
		His Lordship placed doubt in Dorian's mind as to what type of girl she was, worthy of being his wife, honorable and moral, with an upright character.
	www.charitysplace.com /review/pictureofdoriangray.htm (1077 words)

	Glasgow Citizens Theatre - Picture of Dorian Gray (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Henry Ian Cusick is a callow Dorian and Gerrard McArthur a distraught Basil.
		Cusick's Dorian presents a sweet naivity at the beginning and solves the problem of a character who changes but never shows it by rasping the edge of his voice, adding hauteur to his stare.
		Time is unkind to Dorian Gray's picture but Philip Prowse's new Wilde adaptation (should that be Wilde new adaptation?) suggests eternity has it in for Dorian himself.
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	Dorian Gray - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dorian Gray is the main character of Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.
		Dorian Gray was the orphaned grandson of Lord Kelso.
		Dorian is a song by the power metal group Demons and Wizards which is entirely dedicated to the story of Dorian Gray.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dorian_Gray (2537 words)

	The Picture of Dorian Gray - Wikisource
		Dorian is selected for his remarkable physical beauty, and Basil becomes strongly infatuated with Dorian, believing that his beauty is responsible for a new mode of art.
		Dorian's wish is fulfilled, subsequently plunging him into a sequence of debauched acts.
		The Picture of Dorian Gray is considered one of the last works of classic gothic horror fiction with a strong Faustian theme.
	en.wikisource.org /wiki/The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray (356 words)

	GradeSaver: The Picture of Dorian Gray Essay: Morality and Immorality (The Picture of Dorian Gray and A Streetcar Named ...
		Oscar Wildeâs The Picture of Dorian Gray is set during the late nineteenth century England, a period marked with the exceeding importance of social stature and personal image.
		Dorian often gazes at the painting with horror, but is unable to divert from this lifestyle, aroused by its wickedness.
		Dorian and Stanley are above all human, and as every human, are subjected to the similar dilemma: to remain within the borders of moral beliefs, or to venture across into immoral conditions.
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	SparkNotes: The Picture of Dorian Gray: Plot Overview
		When the novel opens, the artist is completing his first portrait of Dorian as he truly is, but, as he admits to his friend Lord Henry Wotton, the painting disappoints him because it reveals too much of his feeling for his subject.
		Dorian arrives at the studio, and Basil reluctantly introduces him to Lord Henry, who he fears will have a damaging influence on the impressionable, young Dorian.
		There is a crash, and his servants enter to find the portrait, unharmed, showing Dorian Gray as a beautiful young man. On the floor lies the body of their master—an old man, horribly wrinkled and disfigured, with a knife plunged into his heart.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/doriangray/summary.html (878 words)

	Oscar Wilde : The Picture of Dorian Gray
		The picture is then transformed into Dorians conscience, the physical affects of sin are manifested onto the portrait instead of Dorians very own life.
		Dorian then decided to go on a great reformation to change his life for the better and to try and make his picture/soul clean once more.
		Dorian, in a fit of panic, grabbed the knife he had used to kill Basil and now drove it into the picture trying to destroy the hideous image.
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	The Picture of Dorian Gray - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
		The Picture of Dorian Gray was written by Oscar Wilde in 1942 A.C. It is about a young lad that has a friend with piles, Basil Hallward.
		During a roasting session, Dorian meets Henry Wotton, a pimp that gets immediately impressed on Dorian's sight; Henry pulls out a courgette and begins a sweet talk to Dorian, to a point that makes him become an accountant.
		The rest of the book is about Dorian falling in love with hot chicks such as Sibyl Vane, copping a feel of their jumblies, dumping them, drinking himself stupid and generally becoming a member of the The Rolling Stones.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray (561 words)

	Amazon.com: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Modern Library Classics): Books: Oscar Wilde
		Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent.
		After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings.
		And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
	www.amazon.com /Picture-Dorian-Modern-Library-Classics/dp/0375751513 (903 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Penguin Popular Classics): Books: Oscar Wilde (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dorian, who represents at the beginning of the novel a shallow yet unspoiled character, is gradually corrupted and is taught by Lord Henry to consider looking on his life as an outsider - banishing reality and imagining that he were a spectator of an extensive play; the plot of which is his own life.
		Dorian Gray at the age of eighteen seems blessed beyond all other young men, possessing wealth and beauty.
		And with his wish granted, Dorian Gray sets out to test all of the virtues and vices that life has to offer, free from the fear that his experiences will leave a mark upon his face.
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	NovelGuide: The Picture of Dorian Gray: Essay Q&A
		Dorian is like the first man, Adam, innocent in his perfection, who is being told by the serpent to taste of the forbidden fruit of sensual experience.
		Dorian is a Faustian figure because he wants to obtain eternal youth, something that under normal circumstances no human being can obtain.
		Dorian learns well from his friend, who persuades him to believe that women “lived on their emotions.
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	The Picture Of Dorian Gray Summary
		The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only novel which Oscar Wilde wrote through his whole rich career of writing plays, poems and essays.
		It seems so Young and innocent and Beautiful to him, that he wishes that he would be the one who'd stay young forever, and the picture would be the one who'd get Old and Ugly.
		Dorian's wish unfortunatley comes true, and the picture gets old and ugly, horrible and merciless, while Dorian, which committed many crimes, stays young and beautiful, and even when he's in his thirties people think that he's only about twenty years old or so.
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	The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		After having his portrait done, Dorian Gray, under the influence of the eloquent Lord Henry Wotton, wishes for the picture to age instead of him so that he may be blessed with eternal youth.
		After the death of his wife-to-be, Dorian embarks on a life of pleasure and sins, which don't affect the man in the slightest, but leaves it mark on the portrait which descends into a horrid impression of the handsome young man it's portraying...
		The main character of Dorian Gray is a man that is a victim of influence, and we can feel for him in that way; but he's also an ugly sinner on the inside, making the audience hate him.
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	usOperaweb - The Picture of Dorian Gray (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Also, she taught with the John W. Schaum piano course, so there were these horrible little pieces with pictures of fire trucks and what-not and it was all very condescending and not very enjoyable.
		The story is of the young, handsome Dorian Gray, who is fascinated with a portrait of himself painted by Basil Hallward; he wishes he could remain young and beautiful while the portrait aged.
		I deliberately constructed it in twelve scenes and used a twelve-note row to generate themes for Dorian and the painting, although it is not a serially constructed piece.
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	Fiction: Picture of Dorian Gray
		Dorian Gray stepped up on the dais with the air of a young Greek martyr, and made a little moue of discontent to Lord Henry, to whom he had rather taken a fancy.
		Dorian Gray lifted his golden head from the pillow, and with pallid face and tear-stained eyes, looked at him as he walked over to the deal painting-table that was set beneath the high curtained window.
		He felt that the eyes of Dorian Gray were fixed on him, and the consciousness that amongst his audience there was one whose temperament he wished to fascinate seemed to give his wit keenness and to lend colour to his imagination.
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	The Picture of Dorian Gray: Chapter 10 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		"I am afraid it is rather heavy," murmured Dorian as he unlocked the door that opened into the room that was to keep for him the curious secret of his life and hide his soul from the eyes of men.
		He had not entered the place for more than four years--not, indeed, since he had used it first as a play-room when he was a child, and then as a study when he grew somewhat older.
		When the sound of their footsteps had died away, Dorian locked the door and put the key in his pocket.
	www.dagonbytes.com /thelibrary/dorgray/chapter10.htm (2740 words)

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