Wilde starts his novel with Lord Henry Wotton purposefully giving his impressionable young friend Dorian Gray a “hedonistic French novel” that inspires Dorian to live for the moment, and for the experience, with no real concern for the effects his actions have on others. The novel also features a depth of world-building that Wilde’s short novel lacks. Creatures of Will and Temper charts a different path for the central characters that guarantees a different resolution-and therefore some surprises for the reader familiar with Wilde’s original. Molly Tanzer’s Creatures of Will and Temper may take inspiration and cues from Oscar Wilde’s classic The Picture of Dorian Gray, but Tanzer gives us more than just a gender-switched retelling.
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