Oscar Wilde

A new, beautifully laid-out, easy-to-read edition of Oscar Wilde's timeless classic. The Picture of Dorian Gray is Oscar Wilde's 1891 novel, a masterpiece of psychological insight. Though considered controversial at the time, it is fundamentally moralistic tale, depicting in stark terms the wages of sin, decadence, and libertinism. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and playwright, one of the most popular, celebrated, and controversial figures of late 19th-century Britain. He is best remember for his epigrams, plays, and his novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Inês Lemos S.

'The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.'

She knew nothing, but she had everything that he had lost.

The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought, and sold, and bartered away. It can be poisoned, or made perfect.

There is a soul in each one of us. I know it.'

If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart,

Like the paint of a sorrow, a face without a heart.

But then one regrets the loss even of one’s worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are an essential part of one’s personality.

Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one is ever loved.

There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or for what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of the body, as every cell of the brain, seems to be instinct with fearful impulses. Men and women at such moments lose the freedom of their will.

From cell to cell of his brain crept the one thought; and the wild desire to live, most terrible of all man’s appetites quickened into force each trembling nerve and fibre.

You always want to know what one has been doing. I always want to forget what I have been doing.

They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early because they have so little to think about.

But youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

'Each of us has Heaven and Hell in him, Basil.’

Know you? I wonder do I know you? Before I could answer that, I should have to see your soul.

I am tired of myself to-night. I should like to be somebody else.

There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.

Were his own actions al virtues ce merely the dreams that the dead man had not dared to realize?

To him, man was a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex multiform creature that bore within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh was tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.

Is insincerity such a terrible thing? (…) It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

As it has revealed to him his own body, so it would reveal to him his own soul.

The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died.

This gave me so much to think abt after my last book I littered the pages w bookmarks 

Bailee Strong

beautiful to read, but lord henry is just too unbearable. 

One of the best books I have ever read. Such a life lesson on beauty and sin and our relationship with us and others. I would give so much to read it again, for the first time.

شاب عصري يبيع روحه للشباب الأبدي والجمال.

صورة دوريان غراي: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Arabic edition

Ahmed Salem

الرمز الرمز الرمز

هناك رمز لما يفعله العقل من الاعيب التفكير و الفلسفة 
هناك رمز للنقاء و رؤية الحياة بألوان الابيض و الاسود
هناك رمز لاكتشاف الذات
هناك رمز لحب الذات بعد اكتشاف الذات
هناك رمز للأرواح الرقيقة التي تسحق تحت الاقدام بسهولة و بمصادفة بحتة 


الحبكة الدرامية كانت مدهشة بالمقياس لأدب هذه الفترة من الزمان

أفضل من القصة ... التاريخ وراء القصة، حيث المحاكمة التي جرت لأوسكار وايلد، و اتهامه بالفسق و المجون و محاكته من قبل المجتمع الانجليزي المحافظ

The Picture of Dorian Gray

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