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Velshi Banned Book Club: ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ by Oscar Wilde with author Abdi Nazemian

Initially published as a famously censored novella for Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in June 1890, Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray” explores persuasion and corruption, sexual identity, desire, mortality, and societal obsession with youth and beauty. According to “Exquisite Things”…

Velshi Banned Book Club: ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ by Oscar Wilde with author Abdi Nazemian

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