About this book
"The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde is a philosophical fiction and Gothic horror novel published in 1890. When a beautiful young man wishes that his portrait would age instead of himself, his desire becomes terrifyingly real. As Dorian pursues a life of pleasure and moral corruption, he remains eternally youthful while his painted image transforms into a horrifying record of his sins. Wilde explores beauty, morality, and the dangerous influence of hedonistic philosophy in this tale of vanity and its consequences.
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- Author
- Oscar Wilde, 1854–1900
- Written
- 1890
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Novels, Classics of Literature, British Literature
- Reading level
- Easy to read
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