When the charming Dorian Gray has his portrait painted, he wishes it could bear the marks of age and sin instead of him. As he pursues a life of beauty and indulgence, his portrait grows hideous while he remains eternally young. Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray is a haunting exploration of vanity, morality, and the corrupting power of desire in the pursuit of perfection.
Date: 1890 (Ireland)
Length: ~320 pages (varies by edition)
Cultural impact: ~15.000.000 copies (estimates)
Genre: Historical Fiction, Horror
"The Picture of Dorian Gray is one of the greatest works of fiction in the English language" — Harold Bloom, influential American literary critic
"Dorian Gray is a classic... a book that every young man should read once, and every old man should read twice" — H.G. Wells, influential British novelist and futurist
"An arresting, and slightly camp, exercise in late-Victorian gothic" — Robert McCrum, prominent British literary critic and editor
"A beautifully brooding account of a man whose vanity leads him to wish for everlasting youth, and the spiraling menace of immortality" — Allie Townsend, Time magazine
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