The Picture of Dorian Gray. Oscar Wilde

Fascinated by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray is ready to make a Faustian bargain to remain young and beautiful forever. The young man is increasingly attracted by the charms of a depraved double life, where he can indulge his desires while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of a pious society. After all, all the consequences of moral decay are reflected only in the picture. “The Picture of Dorian Gray” is a decadent novel about the secret life and the dark side of Victorian society, whose representative comes face to face with the reality of his soul, vain and immoral. Oscar Wilde wrote this book about a hedonistic life, its sinfulness and consequences in just three weeks, but later it became one of the evidence against the writer at the trial for obscenity, which he describes in detail in a letter to Alfred Douglas “De Profundis”.