Picture of Dorian Gray, The

[ dawr-ee-uhn, dohr- ]

noun

1. a novel (1891) by Oscar Wilde.

Example Sentences

In “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” the protagonist sells his soul to the devil for eternal youth.

From Washington Post

A reversed Picture of Dorian Gray: The buildings remain white and clean and “pure”, while the man’s appearance changes to reveal the ogre that he actually is.

From New York Times

The design pays tribute to the Irishman by featuring a portrait from The Picture of Dorian Gray - the first and only novel published by Wilde.

From The Guardian

Pop art is premised, after all, on the belief that the surfaces of things are what really matter, or that, as Oscar Wilde wrote in The Picture of Dorian Gray: "The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."

From Time Magazine Archive