[size=15.008px]此小說具有很強的唯美傾向，不但文辭絢麗，意象新穎，有許多帶有王爾德特色的俏皮話和幽默，同時更隱約透露出同性戀意味，也是王爾德唯一的長篇小說。
[size=15.008px]《格雷的畫像》於一八九○年首次出版，除了引起了軒然大波，並在爾後奧斯卡．王爾德因同性性行為而受審判中成為攻訐他的基礎之一。本書詳細描繪維多利亞時期的倫敦生活，攻擊當時有禮卻虛偽的上流社會，並以浮士德式的主人公格雷所犯的"罪惡"為主題，在當時處於維多利亞時代晚期的英國社會算是相當特立獨行的文學作品。
[size=15.008px]維基百科的英文介紹
The Picture of Dorian Gray is a philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine.[1] Fearing the story was indecent, the magazine's editor without Wilde's knowledge deleted roughly five hundred words before publication. Despite that censorship, The Picture of Dorian Gray offended the moral sensibilities of British book reviewers, some of whom said that Oscar Wilde merited prosecution for violating the laws guarding the public morality. In response, Wilde aggressively defended his novel and art in correspondence with the British press, although he personally made excisions of some of the most controversial material when revising and lengthening the story for book publication the following year.
The longer and revised version of The Picture of Dorian Gray published in book form in 1891 featured an aphoristic preface—a defence of the artist's rights and of art for art's sake—based in part on his press defences of the novel the previous year. The content, style, and presentation of the preface made it famous in its own right, as a literary and artistic manifesto. In April 1891, the publishing firm of Ward, Lock and Company, who had distributed the shorter, more inflammatory, magazine version in England the previous year, published the revised version of The Picture of Dorian Gray.[2]
The only novel written by Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray exists in several versions: the 1890 magazine edition (in 13 chapters), with important material deleted before publication by the magazine's editor, J. M. Stoddart; the "uncensored" version submitted to Lippincott's Monthly Magazine for publication (also in 13 chapters), with all of Wilde's original material intact, first published in 2011 by Harvard University Press; and the 1891 book edition (in 20 chapters).[3] As literature of the 19th century, The Picture of Dorian Gray "pivots on a gothic plot device" with strong themes interpreted from Faust.[4]
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