Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award-winning
Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality
colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Enthralled by his own exquisite
portrait Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend
Lord Henry Wotton he is drawn into a corrupt double life indulging his desires in secret
while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces
of his decadence. The novel was a succès de scandale and the book was later used as evidence
against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895. It has lost none of its power to fascinate and
disturb.
