Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works. Written in Wilde's characteristically dazzling manner, full of stinging epigrams and shrewd observations, the tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused something of a scandal when it first appeared in 1890. Wilde was attacked for his decadence and corrupting influence, and a few years later the book and the aesthetic/moral dilemma it presented became issues in the trials occasioned by Wilde's homosexual liaisons, trials that resulted in his imprisonment. Of the book's value as autobiography, Wilde noted in a letter, "Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be--in other ages, perhaps."
Le Portrait de Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
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The Canterville Ghost
Oscar Wilde
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World's Greatest Short Stories
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Lady Windermere's Fan :
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
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10 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die, Vol. 2
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Oscar Wilde: The Complete Works
Oscar Wilde
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The Picture of Dorian Gray - Audiobook
Oscar Wilde
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El retrato de Dorian Gray "The Portrait of Dorian Gray"
Oscar Wilde
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The Star Child :
Oscar Wilde
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The Canterville Ghost
Oscar Wilde
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde, HB Classics
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