The Picture of Dorian Gray's plot begins with a painter,Basil Hallward, speaking to a friend,Lord Henry Wotton, about a portrait that Basil has just completed. The portrait is of a beautiful young man, Dorian Gray, with whom Basil is a little besotted. Dorian soon arrives to sit for Ba...
“If only I could remain young while the picture grows old. For that I’d give anything…” When Dorian Gray, a handsome young man about town, makes this wish, he can hardly guess that it will mark the beginning of a life of hedonism and debauchery. Soon enough, his webs of deception...
1945’sThe Picture of Dorian Grayis a black-and-white masterpiece, striking and still capable of shocking after all these years. Having a picture in the attic is such a well-worn cliche by now, we often don’t realize that it’s not just that the painting ages but that it reflects a...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray 1945 The Possession of Joel Delaney 1972 The Psychic 1977 The Psychopath 1966 The Pyx 1973 The Raven 1963 The Reptile 1966 The Return of Dr.X 1939 The Return of the Vampire 1943 The Revenge of Frankenstein 1958 The Sender 1982 The She Creature 19...
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YouTube RSS Feed Search this siteSubmit Search Writer of the Month #2: René E. Wilde December 16, 2024 Saturn Salama, Assistant A&E Editor René E. Wilde is this CSUSM senior’s pseudonym, inspired by Irish writer Oscar Wilde. After reading “A Picture of Dorian Gray,” which they dee...
He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for "gross indecency", imprisonment, and early death at age 46. Wilde's parents were successful Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. Their son became fluen...
any record label can issue a dubstep version of the 1923 hit “Yes! We Have No Bananas,” any middle school can produce Theodore Pratt’s stage adaptation ofThe Picture of Dorian Gray, and any historian can publish Winston Churchill’sThe World Crisiswith her own extensive annotati...