The Picture of Dorian Gray
A beautiful young man stays forever young while his portrait records every sin.
- Author
- Oscar Wilde
- First published
- 1890 (expanded book edition 1891)
- Length
- About 79,000 words (roughly 280 print pages)
- Formats
- EPUB (DRM-free) · Online reader
- Language
- English (British spelling)
- Edition source
- Standard Ebooks (public-domain dedication, CC0)
About this book
When the painter Basil Hallward finishes his portrait of Dorian Gray, the young man makes a careless wish: that the picture might grow old instead of him. Encouraged by the witty, corrupting Lord Henry, Dorian sets out to taste every pleasure — while the canvas, locked away upstairs, quietly changes.
Wilde’s only novel is glittering, epigrammatic and genuinely unsettling: a Gothic fable about vanity, influence and the price of a perfect surface.
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Credits & licence
Ebook edition: Standard Ebooks, released into the public domain (CC0 1.0). Produced for Standard Ebooks by Alex Cabal, based on a transcription from Project Gutenberg and digital scans from the Internet Archive. Cover: Standard Ebooks design adapted from “The Garden”, a painting completed in 1899 by John Collier (public domain). EPUB and web reader edition packaged by Paper Lane Books from the Standard Ebooks source files. Standard Ebooks is not affiliated with Paper Lane Books and does not endorse this shop.
