The complete online text of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.

The British author Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900) was part of the "art for art's sake" movement in English literature at the end of the 19th century. He is best known for his brilliant, witty comedies. Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin, I...

Oscar Wilde as man and artist is a study of extremes and contradictions. He approached life empirically, as Walter Pater had taught him at Oxford, but the pupil determined to pursue sensation beyond art into life. Wilde insisted that the two greatest art...

] Together with George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde transformed British drama in the late nineteenth century by expressing a new, "modern" sensibility. By the mid nineteenth century, the British theater, though rich in various theatrical forms, such as vers...

I was having tea in a few days with the celebrated New York dandy Patrick McDonald. I was supposed to be working on my novel, but instead I was worrying, already a wreck about what to wear. We'd met once, at the Dandy Bohemian Salon...

In the following essay, Nassaar views the four male characters in Lady Windermere's Fan as versions of the protagonist of The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Compares Marius the Epicurian, by Walter Pater, and the Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde. Describes how each author is able to create art with a pen and words.

Discusses the Oscar Wilde novel, 'Picture of Dorian Gray.' Analyzes Wilde's use of symbolism in the text and reviews major themes. Examines how the theme of secret keeping fit in with Victorian era morality.

Essay about beauty as explored in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. Society will always instinctively judge someone based on their appearance, politically we will trust someone who looks more pure and innocent with power, and culturally we will accept people who fit a certain physical standard. However the point is that beauty is not based on how attractive an object is to everybody, but how attractive it is to one.