“Rotten Reviews: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
‘…unmanly, sickening, vicious (though not exactly what is called ‘improper’), and tedious.’
Athenaeum
Excerpted from: Barnard, Andre, and Bill Henderson, eds. Pushcart’s Complete Rotten Reviews and Rejections. Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, 1998.