The Picture of Dorian Gray (Penguin Classic)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Penguin Classic)
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Publisher: Penguin Books
Publication year: 1985
ISBN: 014043187X
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Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence. The novel was a succès de scandale and the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895. It has lost none of its power to fascinate and disturb.