Who read The Picture of Dorian Gray help me please: In 1895, the critic Ernest Newman

In 1895, the critic Ernest Newman, in a discussion of Wilde’s contribution to literary thought, celebrated the author’s use of paradoxes, saying that “a paradox is a truth seen round a corner” (Drew xxv). Countless paradoxes appear in The Picture of Dorian Gray, most often in the words of Lord Henry Wotton. Identify and discuss several paradoxes in the novel.

Asked on 26.05.2017 in English Literature.
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