So I just fin­ished the book The Pic­ture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.  I won’t call the story a time hon­ored clas­sic in my mind, but I do think Wilde was  bet­ter at describ­ing a set­ting then many of his con­tem­po­raries.   The main prob­lems I had is that we don’t explore the rev­e­la­tion later on the Sybil Vane is still alive.   We also do not learn of all of his crimes.   The story is about his thought process and his obses­sion of the paint­ing wear­ing all the sins and age instead of him­self.    If you have a spare week­end I sug­gest you pick this up if you want some lit­er­a­ture from the end of the 19th century.

If you inter­ested in a phys­i­cal copy you can pick it up here, oth­er­wise here is the Project Guten­berg link for the free dig­i­tal copy.

  • I really like Wilde's work. I really believe he describes better than his contemporaries, and better than many writers nowadays.
  • I'm very particular about what I read so I can't say I have truly enough
    exposure to say he writes more descriptively then writers of today. He can
    spin a good tale and Dorian Gray was one of those.
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