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I've been meaning to read this book for forever and it exceeded my expectations
Very disturbed at the use of slurs in this book. They knew it was wrong back then and we know it's worth now.
Sin contar el insufrible capitulo 11, es uno de los mejores libros que he leído.
I remember watching its animation as a kid.It's a charming,heart-wrenching story;it is the story of love.
Fluent in epigrammatic language and imbued with witticism, An Ideal Husband is the third of Wilde's society comedies; an exceptional piece which combines melodrama, humor, scandal, and satire. Like The Picture of Dorian Gray, the play is concerned with the secret life of a man whose reputation is spotless. To his wife, friends, and acquaintances, Robert Chiltren is an ideal husband, a promising politician, and a generous friend. But just like Dorian Gray, his private and secret life bears a blemish of which he is overprotective and jealous. Thus, when Mrs. Cheveley had arrived at his doorstep to dine at his own table with nothing but threats on her lips, Mr. Chiltren spared no opportunity to hide the scandal of the cabinet secret which he had sold few years previously, striving thus to maintain his social persona as an ideal husband and a paragon of goodness. In this capacity, the play supplies an interesting study of the clash between shadow and persona, and traces the boundaries between a healthy balance of the two, and a lopsided plunge towards one at the expense of the other. In addition to such existential and psychological interests, the paly dwells as well on a set of controversial ideas and ideals of late-Victorian England. Lord Goring, for one, is a representative of the dandy's lifestyle which Wide himself had adopted at the time. The difference of opinion between Lord Goring and his father Lord Caversham in regard to idleness and luxury represents the gradual changes which modernity was inflicting on the old Victorian regime, for the latter was no longer capable of regulating the lives of the younger generation.
I read this novel twice so far; the first time at 24, the second at 27. At 24 I fell in love with the beauty of its intoxicating prose, which fills your nostrils with the aroma of an everlasting youth as you follow the progress of its eponymous character down the alleys of a thrilling yet sinful existence. At 27, I read it a little more soberly, made of it part of my master dissertation, and dwelt upon its pages for long hours of study and analysis. At 29, I am still in love with the book. Indeed, I could read it countless more times, for it is one of the works which lose nothing of their merits, polish, or uniqueness no matter how many times you read them.[b:The Picture of Dorian Gray|5297|The Picture of Dorian Gray|Oscar Wilde|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1546103428l/5297._SY75_.jpg|1858012] is a late Victorian work which addresses issues and matters that were considered at the time scandalous and controversial. It tells the story of a young man who indulged himself in every conceivable vice without suffering his physical appearance to be tarnished by either age or sins. This very idea contrasts the Victorian moral training which suggested the notion that one's sins were to be carried like an emblem over one's countenance. Dorian had become an exception to the rule when he revolted against the natural order of things and preferred death to the disgrace of aging. His wish for an everlasting youth was granted but none could tell if that was a miracle or a curse. Dorian alone was to chose his own path and create his own destiny. The novel was written under the influence of the French Decadent movement, and was accordingly regarded as impure, effeminate, and perverted. It is an example of the fin-de-siècle fiction which explored the darkest recesses of the Victorian society including obscure themes like duality, hypocrisy, and pleasure-seeking at the expense of ethics. At the same time, it embodies much of [a:Oscar Wilde|3565|Oscar Wilde|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1521044377p2/3565.jpg]'s aesthetic interests. The author was an enthusiast advocate of the Aesthetic movement which championed pure beauty and "art for art's sake". [b:The Picture of Dorian Gray|5297|The Picture of Dorian Gray|Oscar Wilde|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1546103428l/5297._SY75_.jpg|1858012] had accordingly appealed to the public in order to have them value art on the basis of its beauty instead of its moral message.
jamás me recuperaré de esta lectura, es realmente hermosa de verdad
Kinda expecting what was about to happen but still shocked me, there was no saving him from himself, it was too late before he realized everything
Muy buena historia, muy buena forma de explicar los bastos conceptos del hedonismo, y de lo que es vivir una vida sin límites morales
Very captivating, the ending was so sudden. I enjoyed the perspectives that were discussed, making me reflect on these views of women and beauty in modern society.
The dialogue is so polished that it sometimes feels like everyone arrived carrying a book of aphorisms. Still, the vanity and self-deception gradually become genuinely ugly. I enjoyed the wit more than the plot.