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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.…
Details
- AuthorOscar Wilde
- SourceProject Gutenberg #174
- Length78,756 words · 5h 15m of reading
- Chapters21
- DictionaryIncluded
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-08-21
Contents
21 chapters
Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.
- 01THE PREFACE
- 02CHAPTER I.
- 03CHAPTER II.
- 04CHAPTER III.
- 05CHAPTER IV.
- 06CHAPTER V.
- 07CHAPTER VI.
- 08CHAPTER VII.
- 09CHAPTER VIII.
- 10CHAPTER IX.
- 11CHAPTER X.
- 12CHAPTER XI.
- 13CHAPTER XII.
- 14CHAPTER XIII.
- 15CHAPTER XIV.
- 16CHAPTER XV.
- 17CHAPTER XVI.
- 18CHAPTER XVII.
- 19CHAPTER XVIII.
- 20CHAPTER XIX.
- 21CHAPTER XX.
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