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and the way in which their singular friendship helped form the foundation for the modern civil rights movement

all with the power of her imagination (and paper

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"Profoundly important

Picture of Dorian Gray no matter how hard heWilde's only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with its exploration of the myriad interrelationships between art, life, and consequence. From its provocative Preface, challenging the reader to believe in 'art for art's sake', to its sensational conclusion, the story self consciously experiments with the notion of sin as an element of design. Yet Wilde himself underestimated the