Inspired by @TheAromaofBooks I bought myself my favourite book in this beautiful copy by Chiltern Classics.
So pretty! 😍
I think I own 4 copies of The Picture of Dorian Gray now, but always love a new cover.
Inspired by @TheAromaofBooks I bought myself my favourite book in this beautiful copy by Chiltern Classics.
So pretty! 😍
I think I own 4 copies of The Picture of Dorian Gray now, but always love a new cover.
Rejoining serial reader. Might make me stop working through lunch!
It took me a few chapters to get into it (and boy were all these men dramatic!) but overall I enjoyed it. Like with a lot of the classics I think more is left to the imagination than adaptations would have you believe (Jekyll and Hyde, Dracula etc all fall into this category). It is atmosphere more than shock value.
Also why are 90% of the book covers and adaptations of a black haired Dorian Gray when he has golden hair? 🤔
#Roll100 #DoubleSpin
Happy 😃 Halloween 🎃 finally gotten around to reading this after blowing the dust off !
#halloweenreading #spookyreads
#octobertbr #bookbingo
#doublespin
A dramatic presentation and further proof that the soul is connected to the body, you can be vain and desirable on the outside but neglecting on what is on the inside can inhibit one from a life that is meaningful and beyond reproach which can have negative consequences to those around you. Throwing issues under the rug will further perpetuate a toxic complex as your innate self will not be able to disband from an unsettled issue that has meaning.
Halloween Book Recommendations pt. 1 of 3🎃
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Finally getting around to reading this classic. I‘ve read several of Wilde‘s plays but had missed his only novel. And boy it‘s a doozy. It kicks off with Wilde‘s trademark wit and verbal sparring. Then it starts to take a turn and just gets darker and darker. Completely enthralling.
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 most delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.
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It‘s a rainy day today, and I‘m working from home, so I‘ve made myself a lovely pot of “Dorian Gray” tea. Thinking of @TheBookgeekFrau with my mug choice!
This cover is so cool that it‘s got me wondering if I want to read it, actually?
#MarchMagic
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
#BkBasedonPainting
I know I'm stretching this, but it's all I could think of!
Dorian Gray is a young man, and has his portrait painted by a great painter. He realizes his beauty in the portrait and wishes that he would always look the same, and that the portrait would age instead. After dumping his girlfriend, he notices that the painting looks more harsh. He hides the painting as it grows hideous with his age.
Such a lush and gothic classic filled with philosophical quotes and an intriguing narrative. I loved the plot and how it gets darker as the novel progresses. Definitely one of my favourite classics!
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📕 Tagged
✍️ Poe
🍿 Philadelphia
🎤 Pantera
🎵 Paradise City
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Love these from Litjoy beautiful 📚🥰
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A leaving gift I got from a great colleague today as I start a new job 😁❤️🤓
#SinisterArt Day 12
I first encountered Ivan Albright's paintings years ago during a visit to the Chicago Art Institute. One of the paintings I saw was his textured, unforgettable take on Wilde's novel. There is a link to the Art Institute site below, if you would like a better look of this mesmerizing & thoroughly unsettling work:
https://www.artic.edu/artworks/93798/picture-of-dorian-gray
Hey #LMPBC #GroupV - Just checking in as I haven't heard anything in a while!! I haven't received a book from @jimfields3 yet and thought I would make sure that it hasn't gone astray!! I know that @Fredthemoose received the tagged book, but wasn't sure where all the rest were in the process 😂 @BeckyWiththeGoodBooks
August #bookspin done!! I‘m a month behind but I‘m determined to catch up!! #bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks
For my neighborhood book club!
“Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul... He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.“ - page 20
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This is a classic- some of it is a bit hard to take with the modern palette, but the story still holds while the philosophies still give one pause to think even now.
It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognised who it was.
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1. Apparently I don‘t gravitate towards anti-hero books, because I had to google some lists to find ones I‘d read.
2. Tagged book is very good. The anti-hero is definitely not heroic.
#two4tuesday
I have been meaning to reread this for awhile now. #attic #savvysettings @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
.“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing”
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Wow... This book is truly amazing, and I absolutely loved it! I have to say, it‘s one of the best I‘ve read this year! This book had me so engrossed, I didn‘t even want to stop and post quotes, so I ended up taking pictures, and posting them all at once. I don‘t think that my words will do justice to the awe it has created so I‘ll leave it at, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
It had brought melancholy across his passions. Its mere memory had marred many moments of joy. It had been like conscience to him. Yes, it had been conscience. He would destroy it.
It had brought melancholy across his passions. Its mere memory had marred many moments of joy. It had been like conscience to him. Yes, it had been conscience. He would destroy it.
Innocent blood had been split. What could atone for that? Ah! for that there was no atonement; but though forgiveness was impossible, forgetfulness was possible still, and he was determined to forget, to stamp the thing out, to crush it as one would crush the adder that had stung one.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.
Conscience and Cowardice are really the same things.
Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.
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