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The Picture of Dorian Gray

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The Picture of Dorian Gray is Oscar Wilde's only novel, first published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in July 1890 and issued in an expanded book form in April 1891. Its preface, defending art for art's sake, became famous in its own right as a literary manifesto of Aestheticism.

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from 1890 1
Serialized in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890; the expanded book edition followed in 1891.
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Gothic Fiction, Genres
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The content, style, and presentation of the preface made it famous in its own right as a literary and artistic manifesto in support of artists' rights and art for art's sake.
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