The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde's only novel explores the corruption of a beautiful young man in Victorian London. When the naive Dorian Gray sits for a portrait by the painter Basil Hallward, he wishes that the… Read more

Oscar Wilde's only novel explores the corruption of a beautiful young man in Victorian London. When the naive Dorian Gray sits for a portrait by the painter Basil Hallward, he wishes that the painting would age in his place. The wish comes true, and as Dorian pursues a life of increasing depravity, the portrait becomes a hideous record of his sins while he remains eternally young. A brilliant parable of aestheticism, morality, and the price of vanity. Show less