Review supplied by Alix Wright
The picture of Dorian Grey is by far the most intelligent book I have ever read. Wilde’s victorian London is vivid and entrancing, seedy and sickening all at once. The characters have some of the most honest, achingly funny dialogue I have ever come across in any novel. Cant be beaten. A shame he only wrote one novel. I want more!
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One Response
Lorna
July 30th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
1I read this about a year ago and whilst it is a very enjoyable story I found some of the descriptive passage to be more like descriptive chapters they were so long and drawn out.
It’s not my favourite “classic” but it’s also not the worst.
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