"The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
"The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde.
First Read: 09/2007. Listened. Abridged edition, BBC drama.
Notes: I started this book in Spanish (I know, convenience makes for horrible things...) back in 2006, but there was unbearable "Frankestein" and later others, like George Elliot, which i did not read but had to read and since guilt is often good enough and TPoDG is a difficult book, full of philosophy and wit but with very little character development, it ended up abandoned in a corner. This semester I need to read it for my "English Novel of the 19th century class", and even make an special project based on it, so I decided that since I had read half of it already it would be alright to listen to it all again, even if i missed a few details. Bad luck, I got an Abridged edition (I can't understand who thought Wilde required or would stand abridging), I got the story-line and missed all the beauty. So it's on my re-read list, especially for that project, which i can do in the homoerotism in DG, which I'm sure it's been done before but which surely i cannot be expected to resist!
First Read: 09/2007. Listened. Abridged edition, BBC drama.
Notes: I started this book in Spanish (I know, convenience makes for horrible things...) back in 2006, but there was unbearable "Frankestein" and later others, like George Elliot, which i did not read but had to read and since guilt is often good enough and TPoDG is a difficult book, full of philosophy and wit but with very little character development, it ended up abandoned in a corner. This semester I need to read it for my "English Novel of the 19th century class", and even make an special project based on it, so I decided that since I had read half of it already it would be alright to listen to it all again, even if i missed a few details. Bad luck, I got an Abridged edition (I can't understand who thought Wilde required or would stand abridging), I got the story-line and missed all the beauty. So it's on my re-read list, especially for that project, which i can do in the homoerotism in DG, which I'm sure it's been done before but which surely i cannot be expected to resist!