Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (Complete)

Origin
Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray is a philosophical novel first published almost complete in an issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. The magazine's editor feared the story was indecent, and without Wilde's knowledge, deleted five hundred words. Luckily Wilde kept the original manuscript with the entire novel.

Plot
Dorian Gray is the subject of a full-length portrait in oil by Basil Hallward, an artist who is impressed and obsessed with Dorian's beauty. He believes that Dorian's beauty is responsible for a change in his art style as a painter. Through Basil, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wolton and soon he is enthralled by the aristocrat's hedonistic view on the world, that beauty and sensual fulfilment are the only things worthwhile in life. Newly understanding that his beauty would fade, Dorian expressed the desire to sell his soul in exchange for eternal beauty and youth. The wish is granted and while Dorian pursues a libertine life of varied and amoral experiences, while staying young and beautiful. The full-length portrait aged and recorded every sin, and will age and fade. If the portrait is ever destroyed then Dorian himself would be feel the years of sin take over and he would die.

Collection
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