The Picture of Dorian Gray

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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! Spellbound before his own portrait, Dorian Gray sells his soul to keep his youth and beauty. His mad wish granted, Dorian realises that he can enjoy every pleasure and vice and yet remain unmarked and untouched by his experience. Influenced by the enticing Lord Henry Wotton who believes goodness and reality should be substituted by pleasure and art, Dorian devotes himself to a life of sensation and sin while his portrait - and mirror of his withering soul - bears the burden of his shame.


Review: This âStory of a soulâ, as Wilde defined it, aroused a storm of controversy over its morality. Wilde thought this hysterical criticism both entertaining and pitiable for he claimed that the too obvious moral of his book was its only artistic weakness. In order to âteach them (âthe wretched journalistsâ) to mend their wicked waysâ Wilde asserted in his preface : âThere is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.â

Author / Editor: Wilde, Oscar

Category: Classics

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