London · 1891 · quotedThe Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
Mayfair drawing rooms and the opium dens of the docks, a few miles and an entire moral universe apart. Wilde is precise about the geography of respectability: Lord Henry keeps a house in Curzon Street, Dorian one on Grosvenor Square, and the road to ruin runs east to the quays past Blue Gate Fields.
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