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: An Imitation
titlecomplete: Dorian: An Imitation
characters: Baz Hallward, Phyllis Hawtree, Henry Wotton, Dorian Gray
genres: Fiction, Queer, LGBT, Retellings, Gay, Literary Fiction, Novels, British Literature, Contemporary, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 1772
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Booker Prize
category: Longlist
publisher: Penguin Books, Limited (UK)