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The Picture of Dorian Gray

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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 above all else. Influenced by Lord Henry’s worldview, Dorian looks upon his completed portrait and makes a tragic, fateful wish: he wishes that he could remain forever young and beautiful, while the portrait itself would age and bear the physical marks of time, sin, and corruption instead.

The Descent into Hedonism

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3.823.0058.B.U

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London : Wordsworth Classics., 2001

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English

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3.823.0058.B.U

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English Fiction

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