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The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Languages: Arabic, Armenian, Chinese, COS, Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian, Yiddish
  • Content type: Fiction
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"The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde is a philosophical fiction and Gothic horror novel published in 1890. When a beautiful young man wishes that his portrait would age instead of himself, his desire comes horrifyingly true. As Dorian pursues a life of hedonistic pleasure and immoral experiences, he remains youthful while his portrait darkens with every sin. Wilde explores themes of beauty, morality, and the corrupting influence of unchecked desire in this classic work that sparked controversy upon release but remains his most famous novel. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Afterlife, reincarnation, and near-death experiences and Occultism and esotericism.

  • Occultism and esotericism

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical and project-gutenberg matched “Occultism” and “supernatural”. Retained metadata contains “occult” in the subject metadata and “supernatural” in the subject metadata.

    • “Occultism”· via Open Library
    • “supernatural”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “occult”· in subject
    • “supernatural”· in subject
  • Afterlife, reincarnation, and near-death experiences

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Immortality”. Retained metadata contains “Immortality” in the subject metadata.

    • “Immortality”· via Open Library
    • “Immortality”· in subject

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Editions

Open Library reports 3,012 editions; 4 cataloged here.

Open Library record

2021Fingerprint! Classics; Prakash Book DepotEnglish
  • 9789354402173
  • 9354402178
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1994-10-01Project GutenbergEnglish—Public domain (USA)

Project Gutenberg electronic edition

Project Gutenberg metadata does not identify the source print edition.

2008-10-01Project GutenbergEnglish—Public domain (USA)

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  • Open Library reports 3012 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Original print publication date and source edition are absent from Project Gutenberg metadata.
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