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A Classic and a Classic and a Classic

November 8, 2017 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Picture of Dorian Gray – 5/5 Stars I wasn’t sure I was going to listen to this audiobook or not. I like the era (love Sherlock Holmes) and I’ve read a handful of Oscar Wilde plays, but never his fiction. Luckily, Simon Prebble is a great reader (he narrated The Moonstone earlier this year for me and I like that a lot), and it turns out this is a great novel. It’s interesting because I have a huge schema for what I thought this […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: charles portis, first snow on fuji, masters of atlantis, oscar wilde, the picture of dorian gray, yasunari kawabata

vel veeter's CBR9 Review No:448 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: charles portis, first snow on fuji, masters of atlantis, oscar wilde, the picture of dorian gray, yasunari kawabata ·
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