The novel portrays Dorian, the hero, as a transvestite and murderer, and follows his debauched life in Paris and Venice in the company of Wilde, who has been released from jail after serving a sentence for homosexuality.

... Dorian Gray . Unfortu- nately , these valuable resources cannot tell us much about the most astounding authorial feat Wilde achieved in his novel . This feat , like so much else in Wilde's life and art , can only be expressed in the ...

... Dorian forget all Lord Henry's ' wrong , fascinating , poi- sonous , delightful theories ' ( p . 63 ) . But Lord Henry's influence on Dorian was prior , and is clearly to prevail . Basil cannot protect Dorian from Lord Henry . In ...

... Dorian I released his young opponent's hand only after using his knee to jab him in the stomach. Dorian staggered backwards, and his evil twin kicked him in the shins; and he fell again. “Get up,” Dorian I said, in a dangerously icy tone.

The novel was met with moral outrage by contemporary critics who, dazzled perhaps by Wilde's brilliant style, may have confused the author with his creation, Lord Henry, to whom even Dorian protests, 'You cut life to pieces with your ...

Takes both subject and style seriously. This title features the locations, characters, plot and epigrams transposed from the 1890s to the 1990s.