“The Picture of Dorian Gray” ranks as Oscar Wilde's one of the most important creations and among the classic achievements of its kind. The story depicts a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth, as he sinks into a life of crime and gross sensuality. Even though, his body retains perfect youth and vigor, his recently painted portrait grows day by day into a hideous record of evil, which he must keep hidden from the world. In this celebrated work, Wilde forged a devastating portrait of the effects of evil and debauchery on a young aesthete in late 19th-century England.