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The Picture of Dorian GrayOn the coverThe Peacock Skirt, Aubrey Beardsley, 1893
The Picture of Dorian Gray
A beautiful young man wishes his portrait would age in his place, and gets his wish, sinking into a hidden life of corruption while his face stays flawless. Wilde’s only novel, a glittering fable of beauty and sin.
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A wicked, glittering fable studded with Wilde’s best one-liners, and underneath the wit, a genuinely chilling story about beauty, vanity, and the cost of a hidden life.
SettingLondon, 1890s
The decadent 1890s: an aesthetic London that worshipped beauty and surface while sternly policing respectability in public, a double standard Wilde knew intimately and would be destroyed by.
On screen & beyond
- Albert Lewin’s film (1945)
- Oliver Parker’s film (2009)