Oscar Wilde, British fiction, "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

Oscar Wilde discovered that going against the grain of British fiction is painful. And so, The Picture of Dorian Gray was called nasty, nauseous, and prurient to “outlawed noblemen and perverted telegraph-boys”."Deceptive Picture"How Oscar Wilde painted over “Dorian Gray.”byAlex RossAugust 8th, 2011The New YorkerOscar Wilde was not a man who lived in fear, but early reviews of “The Picture of