The Picture of Dorian Gray was a novel by the British aesthete Oscar Wilde. It was his only novel and was published in 1890.
The novel described Dorian Gray as a young noble who grew up in London. He was not keen on fame and fortune and hated socializing. By chance, he saw his amazing beauty in the portrait of the painter Basil Hallward. When he realized that beauty could last forever and youth would disappear, he had the idea of replacing his aging with his own portrait. In order to let the portrait bear the passage of time for him, Dorian Gray began to indulge in pleasure and degenerated himself. In the end, this portrait became the " magic mirror " that recorded Dorian Gray's ugly soul.
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