Ranked #2 in Irish, Ranked #4 in Victorian — see more rankings.
With an Afterword by Peter Harness.
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We've comprehensively compiled reviews of The Picture of Dorian Gray from the world's leading experts.
Eric Berkowitz The Picture of Dorian Gray is now a part of the canon that no one would admit to not having read. Most of us have read it and delighted in its witticisms. It’s hard to imagine, but when Dorian Gray was first published, the book was not well received at all. It was totally panned. It was held against him as being an example of an effete character. It was being serialised by Lippincott’s Magazine, and the serialisation of the novel stopped when it became too inflammatory. (Source)
Marc Montagne My favorite fiction book is the The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. I'm a huge Oscar Wilde fan, he has one of the brightest minds and the Picture is a masterpiece and his unique novel. I consider that you should only read books that you would consider reading again at some point while still enjoying the same pleasure. The Picture is definitely one of those. (Source)
Andra Zaharia A copy from 1903 of this book is my most prized possession. (Source)
Rankings by Category
The Picture of Dorian Gray is ranked in the following categories:
- #62 in 11th Grade
- #44 in 12th Grade
- #100 in 15-Year-Old
- #62 in 16-Year-Old
- #44 in 17-Year-Old
- #44 in 18-Year-Old
- #88 in Academia
- #99 in Adult
- #22 in Aesthetics
- #19 in Archives
- #88 in Art
- #37 in Autumn
- #33 in Beautiful
- #15 in Beauty
- #39 in Bucket List
- #82 in Buzzfeed
- #51 in Catalog
- #50 in Character Development
- #18 in Classic
- #19 in Classical
- #28 in Collection
- #48 in Controversial
- #57 in Corruption
- #59 in Current
- #99 in Dark
- #12 in English Writer
- #95 in Entertaining
- #99 in Entertainment
- #38 in Evil
- #46 in Existential
- #55 in Fiction
- #16 in Free e-Book
- #18 in GRE
- #18 in GRE Prep
- #26 in Gay
- #79 in Gift
- #39 in Gilmore Girls
- #78 in GoT
- #43 in Gold
- #7 in Gothic
- #33 in Graduate School
- #92 in High School
- #75 in High School Reading
- #28 in Horror
- #60 in Human Nature
- #98 in Humanity
- #87 in Influential
- #93 in Insightful
- #71 in Intellectual
- #11 in Ireland
- #28 in Kindle
- #41 in LGBT
- #37 in Leather Bound
- #45 in Lesbian Fiction
- #37 in Literary
- #21 in Literature
- #18 in London
- #75 in Magical Realism
- #49 in Men
- #82 in Modernism
- #50 in Modernist
- #8 in Morality
- #49 in Morals
- #64 in Most Influential
- #59 in Murder
- #51 in Must-Read
- #41 in Mystical
- #85 in Nook
- #33 in Novel
- #29 in Old
- #18 in Online
- #28 in Options
- #5 in Painting
- #10 in Penguin Classics
- #97 in Picture
- #21 in Podcast
- #13 in Project Gutenberg
- #94 in Psycho
- #37 in Public
- #5 in Public Domain
- #40 in Quarantine
- #31 in Quotation
- #100 in Rated
- #34 in Roman
- #59 in Sales
- #71 in Satire
- #73 in Scary
- #75 in Short
- #87 in Smart
- #68 in Summer Reading
- #60 in Thought-Provoking
- #66 in To-Read
- #51 in Twisted
- #19 in UK
- #21 in University
- #47 in Used
- #43 in Victoria
- #48 in Weird