The picture of Dorian Gray

About this book

The only major prose work of the renowned English author is a fantastical tale in which the sinful life of a young hedonist is reflected in his portrait. A fantastical tale in which the sinful life of a young aristocratic hedonist is reflected in his portrait, which ages and year by year shows increasingly evident signs of the hero's repulsive life, while he himself remains forever young and beautiful. The author thus presents a contrast between morality and aesthetic experience: while Dorian Gray remains forever twenty years old, his perfect likeness on canvas ages and becomes increasingly repulsive as his moral decline progresses and the number of young people he leads to ruin increases.