Ben
Barnes, Colin Firth and
Rebecca Hall in the British
film adaptation of "Dorian
Gray"
The
Picture of Dorian
Gray is Oscar Wilde's
work of Gothic fiction.
Published in 1890,
it is Wilde's only
published novel.
His great works
as a playwright
were to follow.
The story tells
of an exceptionally
good-looking and
charismatic young
man who unknowlingly
curses himself in
a Faustian bargain
when he offers to
give his soul to
retain the youthful
beauty that has
been captured in
his portait.
Dorian later immerses
himself in a life
of debauchery, decadence
and sin. To the
world, he retains
his look of ageless
and uncorrupted
innocence, while
his portrait grows
as horribly ugly
as his soul.
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