Portrait of Dorian Gray

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• mmmpop · Sep 2, 2017 · Recommends

  I'm in the middle of the biography of Robert Moses, "The Power Broker" by Robert Caro and just finished re-reading "A Portrait of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde. As a fairly successful yuppie that came from Not A Whole Lot, it's really knocked me down a few pegs and made me realize that being a pompous ass about my exercised social mobility isn't…

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• rsl7 · Oct 3, 2010 · Recommends

  the Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. We all create alter-egos that cover for our worst sins.

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• phtrivier · Dec 26, 2025 · Mentions

  …say that I'm now a bit "tired" of re-reading the same rehashing of other people's book, and I want to read the original ones. Which, actually, is the pont. I wanted to read classics, and devoured "The portrait of Dorian Gray" (O.Wilde), where maybe 50% of all the "as O.Wilde said..." quotes seem to come from (uttered by a single, incredibly obnoxious character.) I challenged myself to read "Les Miserables" (V.Hugo), and…

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