The Picture of Dorian Gray is a familiar story of greed, sin, and arrogance. A young man, infatuated with his own handsomeness and youth as depicted in a perfect portrait, makes a bargain he will come to regret. No one can save him from his appetite for pleasure and his awful fatenot the man who idolizes him, not the woman who loves himnot even himself!Published in 1890, The Picture of Dorian Gray is Oscar Wilde’s only novel. At first the subject of intense controversy, it has endured as a classic for years. A cautionary tale of innocence sacrificed for the sake of vice, The Picture of Dorian Gray is a classic whose lessons are still relevant today.Lexile score: 880L
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Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) was an Irish writer and poet, who became one of London’s most popular playwrights in the early 1890s.
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