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A beautiful young man makes a wish that lets his portrait bear the marks of his hidden life.
When Dorian Gray sees his portrait, he wishes that the image could age in his place. Under Lord Henry Wotton’s influence, he pursues pleasure while the portrait records the consequences hidden behind his unchanged face.
Oscar Wilde pairs sparkling conversation with a dark fable about vanity and conscience. The novel examines beauty, goodness, and the temptation to treat other lives as material for one’s own experience.
The contrast between polished drawing-room conversation and the hidden portrait gives the novel its distinctive tension. Wilde’s wit can be enjoyed sentence by sentence, while the larger story asks what happens when an attractive surface becomes a substitute for moral attention.
