The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde. Part II.

The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only novel by the Irish writer Oscar Wilde. A first version appeared in 1890 in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine from Philadelphia, in 1891 the London publisher Ward, Lock and Co. published the today known, revised and expanded version in book form. The novel, which was considered disreputable at the time, was also the subject of the indecency trial against Wilde.

The main character, the rich and handsome Dorian Gray, possesses a portrait that ages instead of him and into which the traces of his sins are inscribed. While Gray becomes increasingly immoderate and cruel, his exterior nevertheless remains young and immaculately beautiful.

The novel is considered Oscar Wilde's prose magnum opus. Themes include the morality of sensuality and hedonism in Victorianism and the decadence of the English upper class. In addition, the plot and the incorporated art remarks can be read as both a proclamation and a critique of aestheticism, a fin de siècle literary movement.

(From Wikipedia).

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