num_pages: 240
description: Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title-offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords. This edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by Nancy Springer. When Dorian Gray, a wealthy but naïve and irresistible young man, has his portrait pointed, he rashly wishes that he could remain as beautiful, youthful, and alluring as the handsome face in the portrait. Little does he know that his wish will come true. When encouraged by the decadent Lord Henry Wotton into a life of depravity and self-indulgence, Gray is stunned to discover that while the face in the painting is aging grotesquely, he is not! In fact, he remains as beautiful as ever. Nothing ages him. But Gray's wanton lifestyle will eventually catch up with him, and the consequences of his reckless behavior will come to haunt him.
language: English
title: The Picture of Dorian Gray
titlecomplete: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Tor Classics)
characters: Alan Campbell, Adrian Singleton, Lady Gwendolen, Duchess of Monmouth, Dorian Gray, Basil Hallward, Lady Narborough, Lord Henry Wotton, Lord Staveley, James Vane, Henry Ashton, Lady Victoria Wotton, Sibyl Vane
genres: Literature, Fiction, Horror, Novels, Audiobook, 19th Century, Fantasy, Gothic, LGBT, Classics
ratings_count: 1438645
places: England, London, England
publisher: Tor Classics