“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book,” wrote Oscar Wilde in the preface to the 1891 edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray. “Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”Article continues below Of course, even as Wilde wrote these words, he knew that the critics did not agree … Continue reading A Close Reading of the ‘Censored’ Passages of The Picture of Dorian Gray