Complete the task. Read the text about Oscar Wilde's most popular novel and put the correct parts of the sentences below into the gaps. One number is extra.
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Oscar Wilde was an Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and critic, [ ]. He wrote nine plays, one novel, and numerous poems, short stories, and essays. One of his most famous works is "The Picture of Dorian Gray", which was published in 1890.
This novel summarises the basic principles of Aestheticism. The Aesthetic movement, [ ], emphasised the primacy of "art for art's sake" rather than for its social, political, or moral "value".
In Wilde's novel, the beautiful Dorian lives the life of the ideal aesthete, embracing all forms of hedonism in pursuit of new sensations. As he leads the life of decadence, behind closed doors his magical portrait conceals the horrors of his sins, his painted image becoming older and uglier [ ]. Dorian's path of excess is a destructive one, which leaves many victims. Wilde's story is not a straightforward tale of aesthetic pleasure, but, like the Aesthetic movement, it questions the bourgeois morality of the 19th century, which required art to serve a higher purpose.
while he remains unspoiled, young and charming
who is considered one of the greatest playwrights of the Victorian Era
that are still popular
which developed in late 19th-century Europe and Britain