The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde

Resources:

• Full text pdf file   ---   Read The Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray

• Free audiobook from Greatest Audiobooks via YouTube

• The Oscar Wilde Society

• Biography of Oscar Wilde from Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

• The British Library - Oscar Wilde: Brief biography, articles, collection images

• Oscar Fingal O'Flaherty Wilde (1854-1900) from The Victorian Web

• Images of Oscar Wilde from National Portrait Gallery

• Manuscripts and Letters of Oscar Wilde from The Morgan Library & Museum

• FILM: The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945, Dir. Albert Lewin)

Podcasts:

• Oscar Wilde (Lecture Series) from University of Oxford Podcasts

• "Ep 18 - The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)" from Hardcore Literature

• "Free Thinking Landmark: The Picture of Dorian Gray" from Arts & Ideas (BBC)

• "Great Books 33: Nicholas Frankel on Oscar Wilde's 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'" from Think About It (Uli Baer)

• "Ep 031 - The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde" from Overdue

• Close Reads Podcast (several episodes on the novel)

Online Articles:

• • "A Close Reading of the ‘Censored’ Passages of The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Emily Temple for LitHub

  • "The Exile of Oscar Wilde, Dublin’s Charming Ghost" by Alexander Poots for LitHub

  • "How Oscar Wilde Painted Over 'Dorian Gray'" by Alex Ross for The New Yorker

  • "The Life and Times of Oscar Wilde" by Senjuti Patra for Book Riot

  • "No, Oscar Wilde probably didn’t die of syphilis" by Dr. Howard Markel for PBS NewsHour

  • "The Picture of Dorian Gray made me forever suspicious of the self-righteous" by Deborah Orr for The Guardian

  • "Suffering Is One Very Long Moment" by Max Nelson for The Paris Review

  • "When Oscar Wilde's Wit Couldn't Save Him" by Jennifer Latson for Time

Critical Articles: 

• "Character Design in The Picture of Dorian Gray" - Sheldon W. Liebman

• "Come See About Me: Enchantment of the Double in The Picture of Dorian Gray" - Christopher Craft

• "Immoral Science in The Picture of Dorian Gray" - Suzanne Raitt

• "Mind and Matter in The Picture of Dorian Gray" - Michael Davis

• "Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the (Un)death of the Author" - Elana Gomel

• "The Picture of Dorian Gray: Wilde's Parable of the Fall" - Joyce Carol Oates

• "Platonic Inversion in The Picture of Dorian Gray" - Stephen Bertman

• "'Preface' to The Picture of Dorian Gray in Light of Wilde's Literary Criticism" - Isaac Elimimian

• "Style and Art in Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray: Form as Content" - John G. Peters

• "The psychopathology of everyday narcissism: Oscar Wilde’s picture" - Richard J. Walker

• "Utopian Experimentation and Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray" - Morgan Fritz