Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence.This edition contains - acknowledgements; introduction; chronology; further reading; a note on the text; The Picture of Dorian Gray; appendix1I (selected comtemporary reviews); appendix 2 (introduction to the first Penguin classics edition, by Peter Ackroyd); notes.
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