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Picture of Dorian Gray

The Price of Pleasure Author: Oscar Wilde Would you commit a crime if there was a guarantee that you would never be caught? Would you experiment with all manner of evil and decadence if your face never revealed the cost of experience? Young Dorian Gray is a blank slate. He is a beautiful man – a man so beautiful that he captures the imagination of Basil Hallward, a painter always in search of the perfect muse. But when Dorian meets Basil’s friend, Lord Henry, the impressionable young man is captivated by the cynicism, the depravity, the silken promise of living an [...]

2022-09-17T14:59:55-07:00September 17th, 2022|Tags: , |

Silas Marner

Rags to Riches and Anger to Forgiveness Author: George Eliot Silas Marner is a simple man. A weaver, good at his craft. A churchgoer, an engaged man. Nothing out of the ordinary, at least as far as everyone knows. But Silas does have spells, moments where he experiences something like a trance and losses time. In his time and place, this could be misconstrued as demonic, an aberration that requires the strictest judgement. No one must know. When Silas falls into one of his trances while watching over the ill church dean, who later dies, he awakens to a corpse and [...]

2022-08-13T10:39:57-07:00August 13th, 2022|Tags: , , , |

Way We Live Now, The

For Love or Money? Author: Anthony Trollope Augustus Melmotte has recently arrived in London, shadowed by a murky past and rumors. Melmotte is not the usual choice of society: his nationality is suspect, his religion unknown, his wife’s heritage dubious at best, and his mannerisms crass. Yet, he has taken London by storm because of his wealth and the potential money making railroad scheme he has brought to the fore. Haughty society, with land and titles (although very little money), is flocking to the Melmottes, turning a blind eye to their faults, seeking money like vultures looking for carrion. As Melmotte [...]

2022-07-26T09:28:11-07:00July 4th, 2022|Tags: , , , , , |
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