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11 unusual facts about The Picture of Dorian Gray


À rebours

It is widely believed that À rebours is the "poisonous French novel" that leads to the downfall of Dorian Gray in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Christopher Sclater Millard

In 1908 Millard released Oscar Wilde: Art and Morality, a defense of The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Footsteps of Fate

As a result of this contact the wife of Couperus, Elisabeth Couperus-Baud, received order to translate Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray into Dutch.

Linda Kelsey

Kelsey's professional career began with stage appearances in her home of Minneapolis, Minnesota, with her good looks and striking mane of red hair winning her success that ultimately landed her in Los Angeles in 1972, with appearances in small roles on television shows like Emergency! and The Rookies, and the television movie The Picture of Dorian Gray (1973).

Maxwell Armfield

A detail from Armfield's painting Self-Portrait (1901; Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery), was used as the cover illustration of the Oxford World's Classics 2006 edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Mirror of Deception

Imperial Anthems split single: Pagan Altar - Portrait of Dorian Gray / Mirror of Deception - Beltaine's Joy, 2011 (Cyclone Empire)

Reginald Hallward

Hallward is thought incidentally to have been the inspiration for Basil Hallward in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Sibyl Vane

Sibyl Vane is a main character of Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.

The Man in Half Moon Street

It bears some comparison to Oscar Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray, except that there are more logical explanations for the eternal youth of the main character.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Big Finish Productions has produced a series of audio dramas entitled The Confessions of Dorian Gray based on the Wilde character and starring Alexander Vlahos as Dorian.

W. Arundel Orchard

His only serious opera was Dorian Gray, a setting of Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.


Douglas A. Martin

He has written critically and lyrically on aspects of Virginia Woolf, The Lost Boys, Sylvia Plath, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Arundhati Roy, pornography, Silvan Tomkins and Melanie Klein.

Glenn Jordan

His directing credits include small-screen adaptions of The Picture of Dorian Gray, Les Misérables, Hogan's Goat, Eccentricities of a Nightingale, A Streetcar Named Desire, O Pioneers!, and A Christmas Memory.

Oscar Wilde bibliography

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) The first version of The Picture of Dorian Gray, published as the lead story in the July 1890 edition of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, along with five other novels.

The Grapes

Other popular writers have been fascinated by Limehouse: Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray; Arthur Conan Doyle, who sent Sherlock Holmes in search of opium provided by the local Chinese immigrants; and, more recently, Peter Ackroyd in Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem.

Trevor Baxter

In 2003 he adapted Oscar Wilde's novella The Picture of Dorian Gray for the stage, followed in March 2005 by a touring version of Wilde's short story, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, revived in January 2010 at the Theatre Royal Windsor, starring Lee Mead in the title role.