EPISODE · Mar 31, 2021 · 3 MIN
The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
from Download Incredible Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Horror · host Burnice Batz
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/507750 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Picture Of Dorian Gray Author: Oscar Wilde Narrator: Bob Neufeld Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 29 minutes Release date: March 31, 2021 Genres: Horror Publisher's Summary: Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author's most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused a scandal when it first appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel's corrupting influence, he responded that there is, in fact, 'a terrible moral in Dorian Gray.' Just a few years later, the book and the aesthetic/moral dilemma it presented became issues in the trials occasioned by Wilde's homosexual liaisons, which resulted in his imprisonment. Of Dorian Gray's relationship to autobiography, Wilde noted in a letter, 'Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be—in other ages, perhaps.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/507750 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Picture Of Dorian Gray Author: Oscar Wilde Narrator: Bob Neufeld Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 29 minutes Release date: March 31, 2021 Genres: Horror Publisher's Summary: Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author's most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused a scandal when it first appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel's corrupting influence, he responded that there is, in fact, 'a terrible moral in Dorian Gray.' Just a few years later, the book and the aesthetic/moral dilemma it presented became issues in the trials occasioned by Wilde's homosexual liaisons, which resulted in his imprisonment. Of Dorian Gray's relationship to autobiography, Wilde noted in a letter, 'Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be—in other ages, perhaps.
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