Book: Hardcover | 129 x 198mm | 304 pages | ISBN 9780141442464 | 26 Oct 2010 | Penguin Classics | 18 - AND UP
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.
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