The Picture of Dorian Gray
A beautiful young man sits for his portrait and, egged on by an aristocrat's talk of pleasure and decay, wishes the picture could take his age in his place. The wish holds, and he sets about a life in London that only the canvas keeps a record of. The soul outsourced to art.
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- reworks ↑ Faust, Part One
- ↓ The Importance of Being Earnest
- ↓ The Tattooer
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