The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
1854 – 1900
ENPublic Domain
Summary
"The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde is a philosophical fiction and Gothic horror novel published in 1890. When a beautiful young man wishes that his portrait would age instead of himself, his desire becomes terrifyingly real. As Dorian pursues a life of pleasure and moral corruption, he remains eternally youthful while his painted image transforms into a horrifying record of his sins. Wilde explores beauty, morality, and the dangerous influence of hedonistic philosophy in this tale of vanity and its consequences. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Subjects
- Appearance (Philosophy) — Fiction
- Conduct of life — Fiction
- Didactic fiction
- Great Britain — History — Victoria, 1837-1901 — Fiction
- London (England) — History — 1800-1950 — Fiction
- Paranormal fiction
- Portraits — Fiction
- Supernatural — Fiction