When having his portrait painted, Dorian Gray declares he would give anything to stay youthful – even his soul. Dorian descends into a life of decadent excess, and while he retains his youthful looks, the portrait becomes horrifically disfigured. Oscar Wilde s only novel is a dark, Faustian fable of wish fulfilment that leads to an inescapable day of reckoning.

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