The Picture of Dorian Gray, July 1890

By Wilde, Oscar

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Title:	The Picture of Dorian Gray, July 1890
Author:	Wilde, Oscar
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Literature, Poetry
Collections:	Poetry Collection, The Victorian Prose Archive Collection
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Publisher:	The Victorian Prose Archive


Citation APA MLA Chicago Wilde, B. O., & Alfred J. Drak, E. B. (n.d.). The Picture of Dorian Gray, July 1890. Retrieved from http://self.gutenberg.org/

Description
Victorian Literature

Excerpt
Excerpts: From the corner of the divan of Persian saddle-bags on which he was lying, smoking, as usual, innumerable cigarettes, Lord Henry Wotton could just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey colored blossoms of the laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flame-like as theirs; and now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid jade-faced painters who, in an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion. The sullen murmur of the bees shouldering their way through the long unmown grass, or circling with monotonous insistence round the black rocketed spires of the early June hollyhocks, seemed to make the stillness more oppressive, and the dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ.

Table of Contents
CONTENTS. PAGE AUCASSIN AND NICOLETTE 1 PICO DELLA MIRANDULA 18 SANDRO BOTTICELLI 39 LUCA DELLA ROBBIA 53 THE POETRY OF MICHELANGELO 63 LIONARDO DA VINCI 91 JOACHIM DU BELLAY 123 WINCKELMANN 147 CONCLUSION 207