When the painter Basil Hallward finishes his masterpiece, a portrait of the dazzling young Dorian Gray, he fears he has poured too much of his own soul into the canvas. But it is Dorian himself who makes the fatal wish: that the portrait might age in his place, while he remains forever young and beautiful.

Under the influence of the corrupting Lord Henry Wotton, Dorian gives himself to a life without limits. Hearts break. Reputations fall. A man is murdered. Through it all, his face remains untouched—but upstairs, behind a locked door, the portrait is keeping count.

This edition restores Oscar Wilde's uncensored 1890 original, together with the additional chapters he wrote for the expanded 1891 book. Read side by side, they reveal the sharpest, strangest, and most authentic version of the novel Wilde wrote.