1890 Books (Book Guide) - 1890 Novels, the Picture of Dorian Gray, the Golden Bough, a Short History of the Confederate States of America (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (books not included). Pages: 38. Chapters: 1890 novels, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Golden Bough, A Short History of the Confederate States of America, Eric Brighteyes, The World's Desire, News from Nowhere, Darby Bible, Foggerty's Fairy and Other Tales, Hunger, The Influence of Sea Power upon History, The Tragic Muse, La Bete humaine, Strong's Concordance, The Wallchart of World History, Le Vingtieme siecle. La vie electrique, Principles of Psychology, Around the World in Seventy-Two Days, Caesar's Column, The Sign of the Four, A Hazard of New Fortunes, How the Other Half Lives, Might is Right, Mizora, The Great God Pan, The Firm of Girdlestone, Tom Playfair, 1890 in literature, Sebastien Roch, Cesar Cascabel, The Light that Failed, Forty Years Among the Indians, Sidney, The Nursery "Alice," O Cortico, With Lee in Virginia, A Story of the American Civil War, Au Maroc, The Snake's Pass, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, Wormwood: A Drama of Paris, The Cruise of the Alerte, Thais, Lucius Flavus. Excerpt: The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde, appearing as the lead story in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine on 20 June 1890, printed as the July 1890 issue of this magazine. Wilde later revised this edition, making several alterations, and adding new chapters; the amended version was published by Ward, Lock, and Company in April 1891. The title is sometimes rendered incorrectly as The Portrait of Dorian Gray. The novel tells of a young man named Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward. Basil is impressed by Dorian's beauty and becomes infatuated with him, believing his beauty is responsible for a new mode in his art. Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, a friend of Basil's, and becomes enthralled by Lord Henry's world view. Espousing a new hedonism, Lord Henry suggests the only th...