Books like The Picture of Dorian Gray
12 books with a reading profile close to The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. Deep and inward-looking; a moderate read.
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, horror
Gabriel John Utterson, a London lawyer, grows concerned when his friend Dr.
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The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Also deep · horror, literary
This collection gathers the foundational works of American Gothic literature, combining short fiction and verse that define the macabre.
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Oscar Wilde's Plays, Prose Writings, and Poems
by Oscar Wilde, H Pearson
philosophy, literary
This volume assembles the primary literary output of the Victorian era’s most notable wit, including the full text of "The Importance of Being Earnest" alongside "Lady Windermere’s Fan." The collection balances Wilde’s…
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The Masque of the Red Death
Also deep · horror, literary
Prince Prospero retreats to a fortified abbey with one thousand iron-willed courtiers to evade the Red Death, a localized plague causing fatal bleeding.
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories
Also deep and inward-looking · horror, literary
The narrative follows Gabriel Utterson, a lawyer investigating the relationship between his disciplined friend, Dr.
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The Road Not Taken and Other Poems
by Robert Frost
Also inward-looking · philosophy, literary
Robert Frost’s 1916 collection, originally titled Mountain Interval, centers on the rural landscapes and social dynamics of New England.
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus (1818 text)
by Mary Shelley
Also deep and inward-looking · horror, literary
Victor Frankenstein, a natural philosophy student in Ingolstadt, assembles a living human form from scavenged body parts using laboratory chemistry and galvanism.
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The power and the Glory
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
Set in 1930s Mexico during the Cristero War, the narrative follows a nameless whiskey priest fleeing a paramilitary police force.
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Resurrection
by Leo Tolstoy
Also deep · philosophy, literary
Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov serves as a juror in a murder trial, only to recognize the defendant as Maslova, a woman he seduced and abandoned years earlier.
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Songs of innocence and of experience
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
William Blake’s hand-colored collection contrasts two differing states of the human soul.
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Il visconte dimezzato
Also deep · philosophy, literary
During a war against the Turks in Bohemia, a young nobleman, Viscount Medardo of Terralba, is split down the middle by a cannonball.
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Poems by John Keats
by John Keats
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
John Keats’s debut collection, published in March 1817 rather than 1800, organizes lyrical meditations on the restorative capacity of the natural world and the permanence of classical mythology.
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