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The Picture of Dorian Gray is a philosophical fiction and gothic horror novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde.A shorter novella-length version was published in the July 1890 issue of the American periodical Lippincott's Monthly Magazine.
The Picture of Dorian Gray begins on a summer day in Victorian England, where Lord Henry Wotton, an opinionated man, is observing the sensitive artist Basil Hallward painting a portrait of Dorian Gray, a handsome young man, who is Basil's ultimate muse.
His adaptations of Sleeping Beauty, Edward Scissorhands, The Red Shoes, Dorian Gray, and Lord of the Flies added new dimensions to these near-ubiquitous stories. Bourne's recent work, The Midnight Bell , sets Patrick Hamilton 's 1929 novel in a pub , and Bourne's Romeo and Juliet put the tragedy's mental health and youth suicide themes centre ...
Dorian Gray is a 2009 British dark fantasy horror film [2] based on Oscar Wilde's 1890 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, directed by Oliver Parker, and written by Toby Finlay (his first screenplay). The film stars Ben Barnes, Colin Firth, Rebecca Hall, Ben Chaplin, Emilia Fox, and Rachel Hurd-Wood. It tells the story of the title character, an ...
"The Picture of Dorian Gray" is a television play episode of the BBC One anthology television series Play of the Month It stars Peter Firth, Jeremy Brett, and John Gielgud. [1] A 100-minute adaptation of Oscar Wilde 's 1890 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray by John Osborne , it was first broadcast on 19 September 1976.
A Portrait of Dorian Gray (2005) is a book featuring fashion designer and photographer Karl Lagerfeld's visual rendition of Oscar Wilde's 1890 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), [1] with models Larry Scott and Eva Herzigová as Mr. and Mrs. Dorian Gray. It shows photographic interpretations of parts of the novel's plot, with digitally ...
Dorian, an Imitation is a British novel by Will Self. The book is a modern take on Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. The novel was originally published by Viking Press in 2002 and subsequently by Penguin in 2003. Self was originally asked to adapt the 1890 Wilde novel into a film screenplay, but this project did not come to fruition.
The Picture of Dorian Gray is a 1915 American silent film based on Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, which was first published in its full length in July 1891. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Produced by Thanhouser Company in New York, this screen adaptation stars Harris Gordon in the title role with principal supporting characters performed by Helen ...