Oscar Wilde’s novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” which won scandalous fame and sparked contradictory reactions from contemporaries, was later recognized as a masterpiece of English prose and became one of the best-known novels in world literature.
This is a dramatic, paradoxical, mesmerizingly intriguing story about a man who made the search for new, ever more sophisticated sensations and impressions the meaning of his existence. Following his chosen path—leaving behind ruined fates and broken hearts, condemning people to death—Dorian himself eventually becomes a murderer.
At the same time, the hero’s appearance does not change with the years: he remains young and beautiful. But his portrait grows older and uglier—every wrongful act makes the face on the canvas even more repulsive...