The Picture of Dorian Gray
Beauty preserved, soul decays: one man's bargain with youth corrupts his humanity.
About this book
In Oscar Wilde's luminous classic, young and exquisitely handsome Dorian Gray becomes the obsession of an artist and the pupil of a provocative aristocrat whose aphorisms seduce him into a life of indulgence and self-fashioning. With razor-sharp wit and a sensuous, gothic atmosphere, Wilde spins a chilling meditation on beauty, youth, reputation, and the widening distance between outward appearance and inner conscience. Equal parts social satire and psychological fable, The Picture of Dorian Gray pulls you into a world of decadence and moral peril, asking how much one will sacrifice to preserve an image—and what price the soul must ultimately pay.