«The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.»

When Dorian Gray has his portrait painted, he is enchanted by its beauty. Influenced by his world-weary and sophisticated friend, Lord Henry Wotton, he wishes to remain forever young and pledges his soul to maintain his good looks. Set in London in the last decades of the 19th century, the novel follows the course from the studio of painter Basil Hallward to the dens of the East End. As Dorian’s descent into crime and cruelty advances, he stays magically youthful, while his beautiful portrait changes, revealing the hideous corruption of moral decay.

Since its first publication in 1890, Wilde’s only novel has remained a subject of critical controversy. Some have praised it as an instructive moral tale, while others have condemned it for its implied immorality. Combining elements of the supernatural, aestheticism, and the Gothic, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an unclassifiable and uniquely unsettling work of literature.

PAGES: 272, DIMENSIONS: 13x13cm