The Picture of Dorian Gray

Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author's most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused a scandal when it first appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel's corrupting influence, he responded that there is, in fact, "a terrible moral in Dorian Gray." Just a few years later, the book and the aesthetic/moral dilemma it presented became issues in the trials occasioned by Wilde's homosexual liaisons, which resulted in his imprisonment."The Picture of Dorian Gray" este un roman clasic scris de Oscar Wilde, care exploreaza teme profunde precum vanitatea, moralitatea si consecintele dorintei de a trai vesnic tanar. Povestea il urmareste pe Dorian Gray, un tanar frumos care, influentat de dorinta de a-si pastra frumusetea, isi doreste ca portretul sau sa imbatraneasca in locul sau. Pe masura ce Dorian se lasa prada hedonismului si coruptiei, portretul sau dev