The Picture of Dorian Gray

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Peter Batchelor

Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins

Publisher's summary

A young man commits all types of sins, but only his portrait shows the ravages of his life. Oscar Wilde's Faustian classic. Gothic horror at its best.

Public Domain (P)2016 Trout Lake Media

slow parts but good plot

narrator was fine, lists just seemed to dron on in this format, good narrative and plot.

Really bad narrating

The narrator had terrible "in character" voices that ruined the story for me. Dorian's was the worst.

Overrated

Good narration but the story itself does not hold up. The idea behind the novel is clever, but for me, it didn't have enough horror nor drama to keep me interested.

Very dark, but good

I enjoyed this. It started very good, dragged a bit in the middle but when it picks up it is very interesting and keeps you wanting to know the final outcome. it did not disappoint.

A Timeless Classic by a Timeless Author

Very well narrated!! I saw many movie adptions of Wilde's novel but I never read the book!! I Enjoyed it thoroughly!! Beautiful yet tragic!!

A classic for a reason

A great story, with the perfect ending. In many ways, this Audible version made the characters come to life more so for me than reading it did. This was particularly true of Henry (Harry) Wotton, whose character and philosophical musings were perfectly reflected in the narration. As others reviews have pointed out, some of the main characters sound like old men throughout the story, not the young men they are when we first meet them. I must admit that after hearing the three central characters speak, I was somewhat startled to later hear all of them referred to as “young men” (I’d read the book too long to recall that detail). Additionally, the voices used for the females are almost laughable when you first hear them. Despite those weaknesses, I definitely enjoyed the narration overall, as it was strong in the most important places. And the story and writing is wonderful.

Classic

Wonderful reader.
Lots of content to think about and dissect in this era of #metoo.

Great Moral Book

This story gets a little boring at times but it is worth hanging in there for the basic story. It's a wonderful moral.

meh

I'm not sure why I expected more of this book but I did. I expected it to be some sort of gay opus, I mean FFS the book landed Wilde in jail so I was expecting some juicy shit. the actual story tho is just a bunch of rich people being horrible to others.... which is apparently an ouvre in England at that time. it wasnt even Dangerous Liasons levels of the affluent being horrible to each other it was more the affluent ruin one boy who turns into a monster. and he was monstrous to everyone, then he dies, the end. I will say it was rather well written and the guy who narrated it was very good, I just disliked the story.

Ugly book for an ugly ideology.

the main characters in this book are so vile, shallow, and inhuman. they are prone to long speeches and incapable of holding "normal" dialogue. a while chapter (over an hour) is spent listing as many unique and exotic instruments as possible - this is done under the guise of building out the world of Dorian but just feels like Wilde found a thesoras for the first time and thought he was getting paid by the word.