The Picture of Dorian Gray

Authored by the notorious bon vivant aesthete of the nineteanth-century, Oscar Wilde’s only novel, holds a particular place in the contemporary imagination, Wide’s artistically rich work tells the story of a man desperately at adds with himself, a man imprisoned by every aspect of his beauty. Dorian Gray seeks immortality, the stylized existence of a living, breathing piece of art, and in his blind determination to realize this quest, he annihilates all those around him

Set in a swirling enigmatic vapor of London society, both and low, Oscar Wilde’s fiction captures the essence of human frustration, the search for permanence and that which is “real,” that which is tangihle and satisfying. As such becomes one of literature’s most gripping novels, the perfect representation of the melding of life and art.