Tales from Sniper's Rest

The Picture of Dorian Gray, Part 3


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Book Summary;

As Dorian Gray sinks into a life of crime and gross sensuality, his body retains perfect youth and vigor while his recently painted portrait grows day by day into a hideous record of evil, which he must keep hidden from the world.


Words I had to look up in order to read this book;

- Bismuth-whitened; a powder used in stage makeup.

- Querulously; always eager to complain.

- Espial; an act of noticing.

- Tableau; a group of models or motionless figures representing a scene from a story or from history; a tableau vivant.

- Affectations; behaviour, speech, or writing that is pretentious and designed to impress.

- Prig; a self-righteously moralistic person who behaves as if they are superior to others.

- Puritan; a member of a 16th and 17th century Protestant group in England and New England opposing as unscriptural the ceremonial worship and the prelacy of the Church of England.


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