The Picture of Dorian Gray review: Wilde's glittering warning
Oscar Wilde's only novel mixes epigram and unease: a dazzling book that is also a quiet argument about beauty and consequence.
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Gothic
Stories tagged “Gothic”.
Wuthering Heights review: a storm with a house around it
Emily Brontë's only novel is a strange, stormy book about love as a force of nature, told through narrators who may not be reliable.
Frankenstein review: why Mary Shelley's novel still unsettles
Begun when its author was 18, the novel remains the sharpest book we have about what we owe the things we make.