The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde · English · 3 chapters · 57 pages
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How it begins
The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.
From the corner of the divan of Persian saddle-bags on which he was lying, smoking, as was his custom, innumerable cigarettes, Lord Henry Wotton could just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured blossoms of a laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flamelike as theirs; and now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were…
Opening chapters only; the rest of the work is not included. Public-domain text from Project Gutenberg, ebook 174.
What it is about
Basil Hallward’s studio, the portrait and the first conversation with Lord Henry. Elegant, aphoristic prose with long sentences and brilliant dialogue: the most demanding English sample alongside Frankenstein.
Typing difficulty: Medium. 4.2 letters per word on average · 17 words per sentence · 4% of words with ten letters or more
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