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In Victorian London, artist Basil Hallward paints a portrait of the impossibly handsome Dorian Gray. Influenced by the cynical Lord Henry Wotton, Dorian wishes that the picture would age while he remains forever young, and the wish is granted. Free to pursue pleasure without outward cost, Dorian drifts through salons, theatres, and darker indulgences while his hidden portrait bears the marks of every moral compromise. Wilde's glittering prose explores aestheticism, vanity, and the price of living as though art and life owe nothing to conscience. A gothic fable wrapped in epigrams, it scandalized its era and still provokes.
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