Picture of Dorian Gray, The
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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
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