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The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
What if youth and beauty never had to fade? The Picture of Dorian Gray begins with a question that feels almost irresistible, gradually unfolding into something far more unsettling about identity, morality, and the cost of our desires. A novel that manages to be both captivating and quietly disturbing — often at the same time.
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- Author
- Oscar Wilde
- Language
- English
- Original language
- English
- Edition type
- Public domain
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- Project Gutenberg
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About the author
Oscar Wilde was an Irish writer, playwright, and master of the dazzling paradox, turning social conversation into one of literature’s sharpest instruments. In The Picture of Dorian Gray and plays such as The Importance of Being Earnest, he created a world of elegance, wit, and moral disguise, written with glittering intelligence and a troubling eye for what lies beneath beauty. His work includes a novel, plays, fairy tales, essays, poems, and aphorisms that have become almost jewel-like in their precision. Although he became the brightest figure of London society, his life was shattered by trial, imprisonment, and exile. Behind the mask of the charming dandy stands a writer who understood how fiercely society can punish those who hold up its clearest mirror.
About the collection
Shadows, Secrets and the Self
Stories of secrets, hidden identities, guilt, obsession, transformation, and the darker sides of human nature. This collection opens books in which true tension lies not only in external danger, but in what remains concealed beneath the surface of the self.