![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The portrait serves as a reminder of the effect each act has upon his soul, each sin being displayed as a new sign of aging on the portrait. Dorian's wish is fulfilled, subsequently plunging him into a sequence of debauched acts. Realising that one day his beauty will fade, Dorian cries out, wishing that the portrait Basil has painted of him would age rather than himself. Espousing a new kind of hedonism, Lord Henry suggests that the only thing worth pursuing in life is beauty, and the fulfillment of the senses. Talking in Basil's garden, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, a friend of Basil's, and becomes enthralled by Lord Henry's world view. Dorian is selected for his remarkable physical beauty, and Basil becomes strongly infatuated with Dorian, believing that his beauty is responsible for a new mode of art. The novel tells of a young man named Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward. Whereas the original edition of the novel contains 13 chapters, the revised edition of the novel contains 20 chapters. For the new edition, Wilde revised the content of the novel's existing chapters, divided the final chapter into two chapters, and created six entirely new additional chapters. A substantially revised and expanded edition was published in April 1891. The Picture of Dorian Gray, the only novel by Oscar Wilde, was first published in 1890. WARNING: The following note contains some plot details of this work of fiction ![]()
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