The story is set in Victorian London and follows Dorian Gray, an exceptionally handsome, innocent, and wealthy young man. While sitting for a portrait by the talented and infatuated artist Basil Hallward, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, a cynical, charismatic aristocrat. Lord Henry introduces Dorian to a hedonistic philosophy centered on the worship of youth, beauty, and sensual pleasure abo…
The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only novel written by the iconic Irish author and playwright Oscar Wilde. First published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890 (and heavily revised into a book in 1891), it is a cornerstone of Gothic and decadent literature. Fusing the Faustian bargain with acute psychological insight, the novel serves as a dazzling philosophical exploration of art, hedonis…
The Plays of Oscar Wilde encompasses the brilliant, subversive, and glittering dramatic works of the late 19th-century Irish playwright, novelist, and wit Oscar Wilde. Written primarily during the early 1890s, Wilde’s plays took Victorian London by storm. Blending sparkling epigrams, razor-sharp wit, farcical mistaken identities, and biting social satire, his works ruthlessly exposed the hypo…
The Happy Prince and Other Stories is a celebrated collection of fairy tales by Irish author Oscar Wilde, published in 1888. Illustrated originally by Walter Crane and Jacomb Hood, the collection includes five enchanting, melancholic, and deeply allegorical stories: "The Happy Prince," "The Nightingale and the Rose," "The Selfish Giant," "The Devoted Friend," and "The Remarkable Rocket." Blendi…
The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only novel written by Irish author, playwright, and aesthetic icon Oscar Wilde, first published in book form in 1891. A dazzling masterwork of Gothic horror and philosophical wit, the novel explores the dark costs of hedonism, the pursuit of beauty at all costs, and the corrupting nature of a life divorced from morality. (When published alongside other short…