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Oscar Wilde Ebooks Oscar Wilde - The Picture Of Dorian Gray
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Oscar Wilde - The Picture Of Dorian Gray |
Oscar Wildes famous story in PDF format. Sample Chapter Below.
CHAPTER I
The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst
the trees of the garden there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more
delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.
From the corner of the divan of Persian saddle-bags on which he was lying, smoking, as was his
custom, innumerable cigarettes, Lord Henry Wotton could just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and
honey-coloured blossoms of a laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the
burden of a beauty so flamelike as theirs; and now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight
flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window,
producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid jade-faced
painters of Tokio who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the
sense of swiftness and motion. The sullen murmur of the bees shouldering their way through the long
unmown grass, or circling with monotonous insistence round the dusty gilt horns of the straggling
woodbine, seemed to make the stillness more oppressive. The dim roar of London was like the burdon
note of a distant organ. |
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| Format: | PDF
| Allows Print: | YES |
| FileSize: | 252Kb | | |
| Pages: | 114 | | |
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