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The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray

Chapter XI · The Years of the Yellow Book

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For years, Dorian Gray could not free himself from the influence of this book.
Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that he never sought to free himself from it.
He procured from Paris no less than nine large-paper copies of the first edition, and had them bound in different colours, so that they might suit his various moods and the changing fancies of a nature over which he seemed, at times, to have almost entirely lost control.
The hero, the wonderful young Parisian in whom the romantic and the scientific temperaments were so strangely blended, became to him a kind of prefiguring type of himself.
And, indeed, the whole book seemed to him to contain the story of his own life, written before he had lived it.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray

Chapter XI · The Years of the Yellow Book

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For years, Dorian Gray could not free himself from the influence of this book.
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Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that he never sought to free himself from it.
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He procured from Paris no less than nine large-paper copies of the first edition, and had them bound in different colours, so that they might suit his various moods and the changing fancies of a nature over which he seemed, at times, to have almost entirely lost control.
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The hero, the wonderful young Parisian in whom the romantic and the scientific temperaments were so strangely blended, became to him a kind of prefiguring type of himself.
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And, indeed, the whole book seemed to him to contain the story of his own life, written before he had lived it.
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a

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From this reading He procured from Paris no less than nine large-paper copies of the first edition, and had them bound in different colours, so that they might suit his various moods and the changing fancies of a nature over which he seemed, at times, to have almost entirely lost control.

accurate

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almost

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From this reading He procured from Paris no less than nine large-paper copies of the first edition, and had them bound in different colours, so that they might suit his various moods and the changing fancies of a nature over which he seemed, at times, to have almost entirely lost control.

and

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From this reading He procured from Paris no less than nine large-paper copies of the first edition, and had them bound in different colours, so that they might suit his various moods and the changing fancies of a nature over which he seemed, at times, to have almost entirely lost control.

at

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From this reading He procured from Paris no less than nine large-paper copies of the first edition, and had them bound in different colours, so that they might suit his various moods and the changing fancies of a nature over which he seemed, at times, to have almost entirely lost control.

be

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From this reading Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that he never sought to free himself from it.

became

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From this reading The hero, the wonderful young Parisian in whom the romantic and the scientific temperaments were so strangely blended, became to him a kind of prefiguring type of himself.

before

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From this reading And, indeed, the whole book seemed to him to contain the story of his own life, written before he had lived it.

blended

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From this reading The hero, the wonderful young Parisian in whom the romantic and the scientific temperaments were so strangely blended, became to him a kind of prefiguring type of himself.

book

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From this reading For years, Dorian Gray could not free himself from the influence of this book.

bound

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From this reading He procured from Paris no less than nine large-paper copies of the first edition, and had them bound in different colours, so that they might suit his various moods and the changing fancies of a nature over which he seemed, at times, to have almost entirely lost control.

changing

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From this reading He procured from Paris no less than nine large-paper copies of the first edition, and had them bound in different colours, so that they might suit his various moods and the changing fancies of a nature over which he seemed, at times, to have almost entirely lost control.

colours

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contain

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control

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From this reading He procured from Paris no less than nine large-paper copies of the first edition, and had them bound in different colours, so that they might suit his various moods and the changing fancies of a nature over which he seemed, at times, to have almost entirely lost control.

copies

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From this reading He procured from Paris no less than nine large-paper copies of the first edition, and had them bound in different colours, so that they might suit his various moods and the changing fancies of a nature over which he seemed, at times, to have almost entirely lost control.

could

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From this reading For years, Dorian Gray could not free himself from the influence of this book.

different

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From this reading He procured from Paris no less than nine large-paper copies of the first edition, and had them bound in different colours, so that they might suit his various moods and the changing fancies of a nature over which he seemed, at times, to have almost entirely lost control.

Dorian

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From this reading For years, Dorian Gray could not free himself from the influence of this book.

edition

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From this reading He procured from Paris no less than nine large-paper copies of the first edition, and had them bound in different colours, so that they might suit his various moods and the changing fancies of a nature over which he seemed, at times, to have almost entirely lost control.

entirely

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fancies

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From this reading He procured from Paris no less than nine large-paper copies of the first edition, and had them bound in different colours, so that they might suit his various moods and the changing fancies of a nature over which he seemed, at times, to have almost entirely lost control.

first

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From this reading He procured from Paris no less than nine large-paper copies of the first edition, and had them bound in different colours, so that they might suit his various moods and the changing fancies of a nature over which he seemed, at times, to have almost entirely lost control.

For

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From this reading For years, Dorian Gray could not free himself from the influence of this book.

free

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From this reading For years, Dorian Gray could not free himself from the influence of this book.

from

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From this reading For years, Dorian Gray could not free himself from the influence of this book.

Gray

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From this reading For years, Dorian Gray could not free himself from the influence of this book.

had

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From this reading He procured from Paris no less than nine large-paper copies of the first edition, and had them bound in different colours, so that they might suit his various moods and the changing fancies of a nature over which he seemed, at times, to have almost entirely lost control.

have

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From this reading He procured from Paris no less than nine large-paper copies of the first edition, and had them bound in different colours, so that they might suit his various moods and the changing fancies of a nature over which he seemed, at times, to have almost entirely lost control.

he

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From this reading Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that he never sought to free himself from it.

hero

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From this reading The hero, the wonderful young Parisian in whom the romantic and the scientific temperaments were so strangely blended, became to him a kind of prefiguring type of himself.

him

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From this reading The hero, the wonderful young Parisian in whom the romantic and the scientific temperaments were so strangely blended, became to him a kind of prefiguring type of himself.

himself

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From this reading For years, Dorian Gray could not free himself from the influence of this book.

his

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From this reading He procured from Paris no less than nine large-paper copies of the first edition, and had them bound in different colours, so that they might suit his various moods and the changing fancies of a nature over which he seemed, at times, to have almost entirely lost control.

in

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From this reading He procured from Paris no less than nine large-paper copies of the first edition, and had them bound in different colours, so that they might suit his various moods and the changing fancies of a nature over which he seemed, at times, to have almost entirely lost control.

indeed

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From this reading And, indeed, the whole book seemed to him to contain the story of his own life, written before he had lived it.

influence

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From this reading For years, Dorian Gray could not free himself from the influence of this book.

it

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From this reading Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that he never sought to free himself from it.

kind

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From this reading The hero, the wonderful young Parisian in whom the romantic and the scientific temperaments were so strangely blended, became to him a kind of prefiguring type of himself.

large-paper

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From this reading He procured from Paris no less than nine large-paper copies of the first edition, and had them bound in different colours, so that they might suit his various moods and the changing fancies of a nature over which he seemed, at times, to have almost entirely lost control.

less

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From this reading He procured from Paris no less than nine large-paper copies of the first edition, and had them bound in different colours, so that they might suit his various moods and the changing fancies of a nature over which he seemed, at times, to have almost entirely lost control.

life

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From this reading And, indeed, the whole book seemed to him to contain the story of his own life, written before he had lived it.

lived

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From this reading And, indeed, the whole book seemed to him to contain the story of his own life, written before he had lived it.

lost

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From this reading He procured from Paris no less than nine large-paper copies of the first edition, and had them bound in different colours, so that they might suit his various moods and the changing fancies of a nature over which he seemed, at times, to have almost entirely lost control.

might

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From this reading He procured from Paris no less than nine large-paper copies of the first edition, and had them bound in different colours, so that they might suit his various moods and the changing fancies of a nature over which he seemed, at times, to have almost entirely lost control.

moods

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From this reading He procured from Paris no less than nine large-paper copies of the first edition, and had them bound in different colours, so that they might suit his various moods and the changing fancies of a nature over which he seemed, at times, to have almost entirely lost control.

more

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From this reading Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that he never sought to free himself from it.

nature

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From this reading He procured from Paris no less than nine large-paper copies of the first edition, and had them bound in different colours, so that they might suit his various moods and the changing fancies of a nature over which he seemed, at times, to have almost entirely lost control.

never

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From this reading Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that he never sought to free himself from it.

nine

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From this reading He procured from Paris no less than nine large-paper copies of the first edition, and had them bound in different colours, so that they might suit his various moods and the changing fancies of a nature over which he seemed, at times, to have almost entirely lost control.

no

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From this reading He procured from Paris no less than nine large-paper copies of the first edition, and had them bound in different colours, so that they might suit his various moods and the changing fancies of a nature over which he seemed, at times, to have almost entirely lost control.

not

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From this reading For years, Dorian Gray could not free himself from the influence of this book.

of

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From this reading For years, Dorian Gray could not free himself from the influence of this book.

Or

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From this reading Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that he never sought to free himself from it.

over

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From this reading He procured from Paris no less than nine large-paper copies of the first edition, and had them bound in different colours, so that they might suit his various moods and the changing fancies of a nature over which he seemed, at times, to have almost entirely lost control.

own

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From this reading And, indeed, the whole book seemed to him to contain the story of his own life, written before he had lived it.

Paris

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From this reading He procured from Paris no less than nine large-paper copies of the first edition, and had them bound in different colours, so that they might suit his various moods and the changing fancies of a nature over which he seemed, at times, to have almost entirely lost control.

Parisian

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From this reading The hero, the wonderful young Parisian in whom the romantic and the scientific temperaments were so strangely blended, became to him a kind of prefiguring type of himself.

perhaps

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From this reading Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that he never sought to free himself from it.

prefiguring

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From this reading The hero, the wonderful young Parisian in whom the romantic and the scientific temperaments were so strangely blended, became to him a kind of prefiguring type of himself.

procured

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From this reading He procured from Paris no less than nine large-paper copies of the first edition, and had them bound in different colours, so that they might suit his various moods and the changing fancies of a nature over which he seemed, at times, to have almost entirely lost control.

romantic

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From this reading The hero, the wonderful young Parisian in whom the romantic and the scientific temperaments were so strangely blended, became to him a kind of prefiguring type of himself.

say

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From this reading Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that he never sought to free himself from it.

scientific

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From this reading The hero, the wonderful young Parisian in whom the romantic and the scientific temperaments were so strangely blended, became to him a kind of prefiguring type of himself.

seemed

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From this reading He procured from Paris no less than nine large-paper copies of the first edition, and had them bound in different colours, so that they might suit his various moods and the changing fancies of a nature over which he seemed, at times, to have almost entirely lost control.

so

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From this reading He procured from Paris no less than nine large-paper copies of the first edition, and had them bound in different colours, so that they might suit his various moods and the changing fancies of a nature over which he seemed, at times, to have almost entirely lost control.

sought

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From this reading Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that he never sought to free himself from it.

story

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From this reading And, indeed, the whole book seemed to him to contain the story of his own life, written before he had lived it.

strangely

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From this reading The hero, the wonderful young Parisian in whom the romantic and the scientific temperaments were so strangely blended, became to him a kind of prefiguring type of himself.

suit

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From this reading He procured from Paris no less than nine large-paper copies of the first edition, and had them bound in different colours, so that they might suit his various moods and the changing fancies of a nature over which he seemed, at times, to have almost entirely lost control.

temperaments

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From this reading The hero, the wonderful young Parisian in whom the romantic and the scientific temperaments were so strangely blended, became to him a kind of prefiguring type of himself.

than

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From this reading He procured from Paris no less than nine large-paper copies of the first edition, and had them bound in different colours, so that they might suit his various moods and the changing fancies of a nature over which he seemed, at times, to have almost entirely lost control.

that

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From this reading Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that he never sought to free himself from it.

the

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From this reading For years, Dorian Gray could not free himself from the influence of this book.

them

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From this reading He procured from Paris no less than nine large-paper copies of the first edition, and had them bound in different colours, so that they might suit his various moods and the changing fancies of a nature over which he seemed, at times, to have almost entirely lost control.

they

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From this reading He procured from Paris no less than nine large-paper copies of the first edition, and had them bound in different colours, so that they might suit his various moods and the changing fancies of a nature over which he seemed, at times, to have almost entirely lost control.

this

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From this reading For years, Dorian Gray could not free himself from the influence of this book.

times

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From this reading He procured from Paris no less than nine large-paper copies of the first edition, and had them bound in different colours, so that they might suit his various moods and the changing fancies of a nature over which he seemed, at times, to have almost entirely lost control.

to

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From this reading Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that he never sought to free himself from it.

type

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From this reading The hero, the wonderful young Parisian in whom the romantic and the scientific temperaments were so strangely blended, became to him a kind of prefiguring type of himself.

various

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From this reading He procured from Paris no less than nine large-paper copies of the first edition, and had them bound in different colours, so that they might suit his various moods and the changing fancies of a nature over which he seemed, at times, to have almost entirely lost control.

were

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From this reading The hero, the wonderful young Parisian in whom the romantic and the scientific temperaments were so strangely blended, became to him a kind of prefiguring type of himself.

which

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From this reading He procured from Paris no less than nine large-paper copies of the first edition, and had them bound in different colours, so that they might suit his various moods and the changing fancies of a nature over which he seemed, at times, to have almost entirely lost control.

whole

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From this reading And, indeed, the whole book seemed to him to contain the story of his own life, written before he had lived it.

whom

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From this reading The hero, the wonderful young Parisian in whom the romantic and the scientific temperaments were so strangely blended, became to him a kind of prefiguring type of himself.

wonderful

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From this reading The hero, the wonderful young Parisian in whom the romantic and the scientific temperaments were so strangely blended, became to him a kind of prefiguring type of himself.

would

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From this reading Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that he never sought to free himself from it.

written

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From this reading And, indeed, the whole book seemed to him to contain the story of his own life, written before he had lived it.

years

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From this reading For years, Dorian Gray could not free himself from the influence of this book.

young

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From this reading The hero, the wonderful young Parisian in whom the romantic and the scientific temperaments were so strangely blended, became to him a kind of prefiguring type of himself.