AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.

Create a link to this page

Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:

<a href="http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-34441945_ITM" title="Facts and information about Pravda.(Brief article)(Book review)">Pravda.(Brief article)(Book review)</a>

Close Set up an RSS feed that alerts you when new articles from The New Yorker are available.

Frequently asked questions about RSS feeds

Pravda.(Brief article)(Book review)

The New Yorker

| May 05, 2008 | COPYRIGHT 2008 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The CondÃ© Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

This telescopic tale, sweeping from London to St. Petersburg, has elements of the thriller--the discovery of a dead body in the first chapter; a threatening drug dealer; a disaffected long-lost son with a claim on the family fortune--but it's primarily a novel of ideas. The overeducated editor of a self-help magazine finds himself paralyzed by the "complete and utter evaporation of all possible belief, or consistency, or any good way for the intelligent man to ...

Related articles from newspapers, magazines, journals, and more


Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.(Brief article)(Audiobook review): Newspaper article from: Internet Bookwatch August 1, 2009 700+ words
Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde L.A. Theatre Works 681...8863 Oscar Wilde's the Picture of Dorian Gray is a full-cast, audio theater dramatization...literature. When the young gentleman Dorian Gray becomes the subject of a stunning portrait...


Wilde's THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY.(Brief Article)(Critical Essay): Magazine article from: The Explicator Nassaar, Christopher S. June 22, 1999 700+ words
Much has been written about Dorian Gray's portrait and its relation to Dorian the character, but one aspect has not attracted critical attention - the changing weight...


Fest opens with 'Picture'.("The Picture of Dorian Gray")(Brief article): Magazine article from: Daily Variety Morfoot, Addie May 14, 2007 700+ words
Duncan Roy's "The Picture of Dorian Gray" will open the 19th annual New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Film Festival, or NewFest, on May 31. Fest's...


The Man Who Was Dorian Gray.(Review)(Brief Article): Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) Chinn, Sarah E. January 30, 2001 700+ words
The Man Who Was Dorian Gray by Jerusha Hull McCormack (St. Martin's Press, $24.95) The problem with ambitious books is that sometimes their aspirations...


What book has meant most to you?(SINCE YOU ASK)(How to Change the World)(A New...: Magazine article from: For A Change Leon, Jose Carlos Bergsma, Eelko Klapperich, Lloyd J. Demelkhanov, Vakha Oswald, Donald August 1, 2005 700+ words
...settles conflicts.' Lloyd J Klapperich, Greenville, VA, USA I REREAD recently the novel of Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray. I like this novel very much! The style of this author is vivid and precise. In his novel he touches upon many problems...


Dancing with Dorian: in the new ballet Dorian, ABT's Marcelo Gomes stars as the...: Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) Carman, Joseph November 11, 2003 700+ words
In the opening pages of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, the protagonist states flatly, "Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself...


The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde.(The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The...: Magazine article from: Contemporary Review August 1, 2005 700+ words
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde. Volume 3: The Picture of Dorian Gray The 1890 and 1891 Texts. Joseph Bristow, editor. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]90.000. lxxvii + 465 pages...


Another Dorian Gray? Do any antiaging therapies, like hormonal replacement,...: Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report Shute, Nancy May 4, 1998 700+ words
* Health writer Nancy Shute replies: Antiaging gurus tout a number of hormones, including melatonin and DHEA, but by far the most trendy--and controversial--is human growth hormone. Scientists have known for decades that the pituitary gland produces less of the hormone as we age. With synthetic

For more facts and information, see all results