# The Picture of Dorian Gray

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- Book: [The Picture of Dorian Gray](https://www.bookquiver.com/oscar-wild/the-picture-of-dorian-gray) ([The Picture of Dorian Gray.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/oscar-wild/the-picture-of-dorian-gray.md))
- Authors: [Oscar Wild](https://www.bookquiver.com/oscar-wild)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4144-251-8
- Published: 2006-08-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman inthe eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence. The novel was a succès de scandale and the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895. It has lost none of its power to fascinate and disturb.