The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wisehouse Classics - with original illustrations by Eugene Dété). Oscar Wilde
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Название: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wisehouse Classics - with original illustrations by Eugene Dété)
Автор: Oscar Wilde
Издательство: Ingram
Жанр: Ужасы и Мистика
isbn: 9789176371152
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by
Oscar Wilde
Illustrated with Engravings by Eugene D été after Paul Thiriat
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Wisehouse Classics
Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Illustrated with Engravings by Eugene Dété after Paul Thiriat
First published by Ward Lock & Co, in April 1891
Cover photo: Paul Mounet, by Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel in 1875, aged 27 or 28
Published by Wisehouse Classics – Sweden
ISBN 978-91-7637-115-2
Wisehouse Classics is a Wisehouse Imprint.
© Wisehouse 2015 – Sweden
© Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photographing, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of the publisher.
Contents
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
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.
The highest, as the lowest, form of criticism is a mode of autobiography.
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.
They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
The nineteenth century dislike of Realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass.
The nineteenth century dislike of Romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass.
The moral life of man forms part of the subject-matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.
No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are true can be proved.
No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.
No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.
Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art.
Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.
From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician. From the point of view of feeling, the actor’s craft is the type.
All art is at once surface and symbol.
Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.
Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.
When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
All art is quite useless.
Oscar Wilde.
THE STUDIO WAS FILLED WITH THE RICH ODOUR OF ROSES, AND WHEN the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate me of the pink-flowering thorn.
From the corner of the divan of Persian saddlebags on which he СКАЧАТЬ