Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray is a provocative exploration of vanity, morality, and the corruption hidden beneath beautiful surfaces. When a young man's portrait ages while he remains youthful, Wilde creates a Gothic parable about the costs of hedonism and the impossibility of escaping one's conscience. The novel remains a brilliant critique of Victorian hypocrisy and a meditation on art, beauty, and moral decay.

Because Wilde understood that what we hide from the world eventually consumes us

• Author: Oscar Wilde

• Publisher: Penguin Classics

• Format: Paperback