Tag: Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde (Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, 1890); audiobook read by Steven Crossley (W F Howes, 2012)

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The story is justly famous and the epigrams easy to quote, yet the overall reading experience is rendered wearisome by Wilde’s tacked-on (and continuously hammered home) cod philosophy. The character of Sir Henry presumably inspired that of The Sphinx in Mystery Men.

 

 

Dorian Gray

Dorian Gray

dir. Oliver Parker, 2009

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Judged without reference to the eponymous novel by Oscar Wilde, this gothic film bucks the trend of unwatchable National Lottery-funded productions and more than repays its modest budget (if only for Colin Firth’s virtuoso support act as the libertine Lord Henry Wotton).

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