Presented by Penguin.

This Penguin Classic is performed by Ben Barnes, star of the film adaptation of Dorian Gray, also known for his roles in Westworld and The Chronicles of Narnia. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Robert Mighall.

Enthralled by his have exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn right into a corrupt dual existence; indulging his desires in key while remaining a gentleman in the eye of polite culture. Only his family portrait bears the traces of his decadence. The novel was a succès de scandale as well as the publication was later utilized as evidence against Wilde in the Aged Bailey in 1895. It has lost none of its power to fascinate and disturb.