The Picture of Dorian Gray

Written in his distinctively dazzling manner Oscar Wilde’s story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author’s most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray’s moral disintegration caused a scandal when it first appeared in 1890 but though Wilde was attacked for the novel’s corrupting influence he responded that there is in fact “a terrible moral in Dorian Gray.”