Short Story Sensation: Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime by Oscar Wilde

I have spent the last several days with this story: analyzing it, researching it, reading it, and writing about it.  For a short story, it is quite gripping and moving.  It’s funny out times, outlandish at others.  Like Dorian Gray in many respects, it explores human nature.  It doesn’t critique it explicitly but extremely subtly.  [...]

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Review: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Publisher’s Synopsis: In Oscar Wilde’s famous novel, Dorian Gray is tempted by Henry Watton to sell his soul in order to hold on ot beauty and youth.  Dorian succumbs and murders the portrait painter Basil Hallward, who stands between him and his goal.  Though in the end vice is punished and virtue rewarded, the novel [...]

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