Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Oscar Wilde, Art and Morality: A Defence of "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

6 You know yourself, Harry, how independent I am by nature. My father destined me for the army. I insisted on going to Oxford. Then he made me enter my name at the Middle Temple. Before I had eaten half a dozen dinners I gave up the Bar, and announced my intention of becoming...

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11. CHAPTER XIII. (XX.)

* I. i. LIPPINCOTT'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE. July, 1890. London: Ward, Lock & Co. Price 1/-. Size 9 by 6 in. The cover, printed in red and black, is inscribed: This Number contains a...

12. iii. Fifty copies on Imperial Japanese vellum, with an extra set of the

2 vols., 8vo size, 7-7/8 by 5-1/2 in. Grey wove paper wrappers, decorated with bands and printed in blue on front, back and ends. Printed on wove paper with edges untrimmed.

7. CHAPTER VIII (X).

59 Mrs. Leaf, a dear old lady in a black silk dress, with a photograph of the late Mr. Leaf framed in a large gold brooch at her neck, and old-fashioned thread mittens on her wr...

1. CHAPTER I.

6 You know yourself, Harry, how independent I am by nature. My father destined me for the army. I insisted on going to Oxford. Then he made me enter my name at the Middle Temple...

6. CHAPTER VII. (IX).

54 Hallward felt strangely moved. Rugged and straightforward as he was, there was something in his nature that was purely feminine in its tenderness. The lad was infinitely dear...

3. CHAPTER III. (IV). 22, 23 I think my husband has got twenty-seven of

"I don't know whether he has any passion, but he certainly has romance," said Lord Henry, with an amused look in his eyes. "Has he never let you know that?"

8. CHAPTER X (XII.)

2. CHAPTER II.

9. CHAPTER X. (XII).

13. ii. New Edition, 1907

XXI. i. DORIAN GRAYS PORTRATT/ Af/OSCAR WILDE./Ofversattning fran Engelskan. af N. Selander. Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Forlag. 1905. Size 7-1/4 by 4-3/4 in. White wrappers (bea...

5. CHAPTER VI. (VIII).

4. CHAPTER IV. (VI).

32 Hallward turned perfectly pale, and a curious look flashed for a moment into his eyes, and then passed away, leaving them dull. "Dorian engaged to be married!" he cried. "Imp...

10. CHAPTER XI. (XIII.)