num_pages: 278
description: Dorian, an Imitation is a British novel by Will Self. The book is a modern take on Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. The novel was originally published by Viking Press in 2002 and subsequently by Penguin in 2003. Self was originally asked to adapt the Wilde novel into a film screenplay, but this project did not come to fruition. Instead, Self took this uncompleted screenplay and re-worked it into a novel, which he described as "an imitation - and a homage" to the Wilde original.
language: English
title: Dorian
titlecomplete: Dorian
characters: Dorian Gray, Phyllis Hawtree, Baz Hallward, Henry Wotton
genres: Fiction, Retellings, Queer, LGBT, British Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Gay
ratings_count: 1772
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Booker Prize
category: Longlist
publisher: Gardners Books