The novel begins with Lord Henry Wottom watching his friend Basil Hallward painting the portrait of a handsome young man called Dorian Gray. Lord Henry wants to know the subject painted in the ...

When The Picture of Dorian Gray was serialized in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine in 1890, it was decried as immoral. In revising the text the following year, Wilde (Photo to Left) included a ...

meets the pure Dorian Gray (Hurd Hatfield) posing for talented painter Basil Hallward (Lowell Gilmore). Basil paints Dorian's portrait and gives the beautiful painting and an Egyptian sculpture of ...

Oscar Wilde wrote poetry, short stories, critical essays, plays, book reviews, and hundreds of letters, but he published only one novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, which first appeared as a ...