... it without succumbing to it. As Oscar Wilde was a confirmed aesthete himself, this conclusion may appear paradoxical, but it should be mentioned that not much in this book is not... "The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely," asserts Wilde, and this turns on to another apparent theme in the book, being the main characters' idea of living for pleasure. "I have ... Wilde, have tried to take out, one cannot escape the fact that The Picture of Dorian Gray is also a very entertaining novel. Briefly, the plot goes as follows: After have met the painter Basil...

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