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de WILDE, OSCAR
de WILDE, OSCAR
The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when thelight summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there camethrough the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the moredelicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn...The Picture of Dorian Gray is a philosophical novel by the writerOscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890 issue ofLippincott's Monthly Magazine. Dorian Gray is the subject of a full-length portrait in oil by BasilHallward, an artist who is impressed and infatuated by Dorian'sbeauty, he believes that Dorians beauty is responsible for the newmode in his art as a painter. Through Basil, Dorian meets Lord HenryWotton, and he soon is enthralled by the aristocrat's hedonisticworldview: that beauty and sensual fulfilment are the only thingsworth pursuing in life. Newly understanding that his beauty will fade, Dorian expresses the desire to sell his soul, to ensure that thepicture, rather than he, will age and fade. The wish is granted, andDorian pursues a libertine life of varied and amoral experiences, allthe while his portrait ages and records every soul-corrupting sin.