Classic works of this Urban Gothic include Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ( 1886 ), Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1891 ), George du Maurier's Trilby ( 1894 ), Richard Marsh's The Beetle: A Mystery ( 1897 ), Henry James ' The Turn of the Screw ( 1898 ), and the stories of Arthur Machen.

The Gothic tradition continued in the 19th century, in such works as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ( 1818 ), Edgar Allan Poe's short stories, the works of Sheridan Le Fanu, Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ( 1886 ), Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1890 ), and Bram Stoker's Dracula ( 1897 ).

* In Oscar Wilde's novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1890 ), a portrait serves as a magical mirror that reflects the true visage of the perpetually youthful protagonist, as well as the effect on his soul of each sinful act

The myth had a decided influence on English Victorian homoerotic culture, via André Gide's study of the myth, Traite du Narcisse (' The Treatise of the Narcissus ', 1891 ), and the only novel by Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray.

* A canto was quoted and used as an underlying theme of the 1945 screen adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray: " I sent my soul through the invisible, some letters of that after-life to spell, and by and by my soul did return, and answered, ' I myself am Heaven and Hell.

While Salomé, An Ideal Husband and The Picture of Dorian Gray had dwelt on more serious wrongdoing, vice in Earnest is represented by Algy's craving for cucumber sandwiches.

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.

The Picture of Dorian Gray is considered a work of classic gothic fiction with a strong Faustian theme.

Dorian faces his portrait in the 1945 film The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1945 film ) | The Picture of Dorian Gray

Wilde went on to say that the notion behind The Picture of Dorian Gray is " old in the history of literature " but was something to which he had " given a new form.

The Picture of Dorian Gray began as a short novel submitted to Lippincott's Monthly Magazine.

Conan Doyle promptly submitted The Sign of the Four to Stoddart, but Wilde was more dilatory ; Conan Doyle's novel was published in the February 1890 edition of Lippincott's, but Stoddart did not receive Wilde's typescript for The Picture of Dorian Gray until 7 April 1890.

The preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray was added, along with other amendments, after the edition published in Lippincott's was criticised.

'" The Irish Times wrote that The Picture of Dorian Gray was " first published to some scandal.

* The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wordsworth Classics 1992, ISBN 1-85326-015-0

* The Picture of Dorian Gray, Modern Library 1992, ISBN 978-0-679-60001-5

* The Picture of Dorian Gray, Penguin Classics 1986, ISBN 0-14-043187-X

* The Picture of Dorian Gray, Tor 1999, ISBN 0-8125-6711-0

* The Picture of Dorian Gray, Books, Inc. 1994

* The Picture of Dorian Gray, Broadview Press 1998, ISBN 978-1-55111-126-1

* The Picture of Dorian Gray, Barnes and Noble Classics 2003, ISBN 978-1-59308-025-9

Winning the 1951 Best Picture Oscar and numerous other awards, the film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, featured many tunes of Gershwin, and concluded with an extensive, elaborate dance sequence built around the An American in Paris symphonic poem ( arranged for the film by Johnny Green ), costing $ 500, 000.

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