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Footnotes and references
- ^ a b The Picture of Dorian Gray (Penguin Classics) – Introduction
- ^ Notes on The Picture of Dorian Gray – An overview of the text, sources, influences, themes and a summary of The Picture of Dorian Gray
- ^ The Picture of Dorian Gray (Project Gutenberg 20-chapter version), line 3479 et seq in plain text (chapter VII).
- ^ Ghost and Horror Fiction – a website which discusses ghost and horror fiction from the 19th century onwards (retrieved 30 July 2006)
- ^ "Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray". Highbeam Research. http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-92865915.html. Retrieved 26 April 2007.
- ^ The Modern Library – a synopsis of the book coupled with a short biography of Oscar Wilde (retrieved 3 November 2009)
- ^ The Picture of Dorian Gray (Penguin Classics) – Chapter XII
- ^ The Picture of Dorian Gray (Penguin Classics) – Chapter XI
- ^ The Wikiquote Oscar Wilde page classifies this quotation as Unsourced.
- ^ Oscar Wilde Quotes – a quote from Oscar Wilde about The Picture of Dorian Gray and its likeness to Faust (retrieved 7 July 2006)
- ^ The Picture of Dorian Gray (Penguin Classics) – Preface
- ^ The Picture of Dorian Gray (Penguin Classics) – Chapter II
- ^ The Picture of Dorian Gray – a summary and commentary of Chapter II of The Picture of Dorian Gray (retrieved 29 July 2006)
- ^ Ellmann, Oscar Wilde (Vintage, 1988) p.316
- ^ The Picture of Dorian Gray (Penguin Classics) – A Note on the Text
- ^ GraderSave: ClassicNote – a summary and analysis of the book and its preface (retrieved 5 July 2006)
- ^ The Preface first appeared with the publication of the novel in 1891. But by June of 1890 Wilde was defending his book (see The Letters of Oscar Wilde, Merlin Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis eds., Henry Holt (2000), ISBN 0-8050-5915-6 and The Artist as Critic, ed. Richard Ellmann, University of Chicago (1968), ISBN 0-226-89764-8 – where Wilde's review of Giles's translation is reprinted and Chuang Tsŭ is incorrectly identified with Confucius.) Wilde's review of Giles's translation was published in The Speaker of 8 February 1890.
- ^ Ellmann, The Artist as Critic, 222.
- ^ The Modern Library – a synopsis of the book coupled with a short biography of Oscar Wilde (retrieved 6 July 2006)
- ^ CliffsNotes:The Picture of Dorian Gray – an introduction and overview the book (retrieved 5 July 2006)
- ^ Lawler, Donald L., "An Inquiry into Oscar Wilde's Revisions of 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'" (New York: Garland, 1988)
- ^ Official website of Dublin: One City, One Book...an initiative of Dublin City Public Libraries. http://www.dublinonecityonebook.ie/
- Introduction
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- Characters
- Themes
- Allusions to other works
- Literary significance
- Adaptations and allusions
- Contemporary attention
- Editions
- Footnotes and references
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