The
Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar
Wilde
Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul
for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works. Written in
Wilde's characteristically dazzling manner, full of stinging epigrams and
shrewd observations, the tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused
something of a scandal when it first appeared in 1890. Wilde was attacked for his
decadence and corrupting influence, and a few years later the book and the
aesthetic/moral dilemma it presented became issues in the trials occasioned by
Wilde's homosexual liaisons, trials that resulted in his imprisonment. Of the
book's value as autobiography, Wilde noted in a letter, "Basil Hallward is
what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would
like to be—in other ages, perhaps."
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