Dorian Gray is being painted by Basil Hallward, who is fascinated by his beauty. But when Sir Henry Wotton visits him and seduces him into admiring youthful beauty with a captivating speech, Dorian makes a wish he will regret for the rest of his life: that all the marks of aging will be reflected in the portrait and not on his own face. The stage is set for a masterful story about appearance, reality, art, life, truth, fiction, and the weight of conscience. Oscar Wilde's only full-length novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, is a timeless gem of sophisticated wit and mischief, bringing together the best of his talent in a reinterpretation of the Faustian myth.