The Picture of Dorian Gray

<p>How sad it is! murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. How sad it is! I shall grow old and horrible and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June.���... If it were only the other way! If it were I who was to be always young and the picture that was to grow old! For that���-for that���-I would give everything! Yes there is nothing in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for that!</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>The Picture of Dorian Gray is a classic philosophical novel that explores themes of aestheticism and double lives. It is the only novel written by Wilde and one of his major and most controversial works. </p>