Author: Wilde, Oscar
Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Published on 1 April 2010 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom.
Paperback | 256 pages
198 x 132 x 15 | 194g
Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence. The novel was a succès de scandale and the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895. It has lost none of its power to fascinate and disturb.