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Als der gutaussehende Dorian Gray ein Portrait von sich betrachtet, äußert er den Wunsch, dass es an seiner Stelle altern, er hingegen aber immer sein jugendliches Aussehen behalten soll. Kurz darauf bemerkt er merkwürdige Veränderungen an seinem Bild, die er nicht voraussehen konnte. Das Porträt altert tatsächlich an seiner statt und die Spuren seiner Sünden und Vergehen brennen sich in sein Abbild ein. In seiner Verzweiflung schließt er das Bild weg, um es vor neugierigen Blicken zu verbergen. Doch das Bild wird zu einem Dämon von dem er sich nicht losreißen kann...

Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence. The novel was a succès de scandale, and the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895. It has lost none of its power to fascinate and disturb.

Wenn doch nur das Bild anstelle meiner altern würde, wünscht sich Dorian Gray, als er sein Konterfei in einem Porträt betrachtet. Der Wunsch wird Wirklichkeit: Sein exzessives Leben geht scheinbar spurlos an ihm vorüber. Doch muss er dafür immer wieder in die dunkle Kammer, in der er sein Bild versteckt hält. Auf diesem gräbt sich jede unmoralische Entscheidung, jede Verwerflichkeit und jede Illoyalität tief ein, während er selbst makellos bleibt. Folgenlos bleibt sein zügelloses Leben dennoch nicht.

After the artist Basil Hallward paints his portrait, Dorian Gray frivolously wishes that the picture change, yet he remain the same. Allured by his perverted friend, Henry Wotton, Gray jumps into a life of depravity and sin. With each sin Dorian commits, the painting of him grows increasingly hideous, showing him what is happening to his soul.

Mit scharfem Verstand, treffsicherem Witz und ästhetischem Gespür erzählt Oscar Wilde in seinem berühmten Roman Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray von dem zum Scheitern verurteilten Versuch eines Lebens als Kunstwerk...

The Picture of Dorian Gray is the story of a man who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for eternal youth. As Basil Hallward, an aspiring artist, puts a few touches on a portrait of his handsome young friend Dorian Gray, Gray wishes that the portrait might grow old while he remains forever young. While Dorian Gray spends his life pursuing fresh experiences and new sensations, his looks do not change. However, the portrait, secretly hidden in the attic of his residence and with which he has grown increasingly obsessed, does.

Over 120 years after Oscar Wilde submitted The Picture of Dorian Gray for publication, the uncensored version of his novel appears here for the first time in audio. This volume restores material, including instances of graphic homosexual content, removed by the novel's first editor, who feared it would be "offensive" to Victorians.

A disturbing tale of a young man's uncanny ability to remain both young and beautiful while descending into a life of heartless debauchery, The Picture of Dorian Gray was considered proof of both Wilde's genius and his perversion. Oscar Wilde's scandalous best seller of 1891 was one of the most damning pieces of evidence used against him in the trial that brought about his downfall.

The beautiful young Dorian Gray has his portrait painted by society artist Basil Hallward. Admired by all, the dazzling, wealthy, handsome young man has everything anyone could wish for, or so it appears. Oscar Wilde's novel is a masterly study of moral corruption, a tour-de-force of suspense and surprise.

"If it were I who were to be always young and the picture to grow old, I would give my soul for it." So says Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde's brilliant creation who sells his soul for youth and beauty.

Basil Hallward había terminado el retrato. El joven Dorian, al verlo, no pudo más que desear, desde su frívola inocencia, que fuera su imagen la que envejeciera y se corrompiera con el paso de los años mientras él permanecía intacto. Y así fue: a partir de entonces, Dorian Gray conservó no solo la lozanía y la hermosura propias de la juventud, sino el aspecto puro de los inocentes. Pero ¿a qué precio? El retrato de Dorian Gray es un logro insoslayable de la literatura universal, vertido aquí magníficamente por el escritor y traductor Alejandro Palomas.

England, Ende des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts: Lord Henry Wotton, ein geistreicher englischer Aristokrat und Dandy, ist fasziniert vom Aussehen des jungen Dorian Gray. Im Atelier seines Freundes, dem Maler Basil Hallward, versucht Henry, den noch knabenhaften Dorian zu manipulieren, um ihn letztendlich als Jünger für seine hedonistischen Ideale zu gewinnen. Durch den Einfluss des Lords wird sich der junge Mann der eigenen Schönheit als auch deren Vergänglichkeit bewusst. Dies lässt ihn im Angesicht seines Portraits einen Wunsch ausrufen, der sich sehr bald zu einem bösen Fluch entwickeln wird.

Wie traurig das ist. Ich soll alt werden, hässlich und abstoßend. Aber dieses Bild wird ewig jung bleiben...

In the wealthy and vain hedonist Dorian Gray, London painter Basil Hallward has found his muse. Only when the portrait of Dorian begins to age, while the man himself remains untouched by time, do they realize they may have made a deal with the devil. Oscar Wilde’s only novel takes a witty, philosophical, and harrowing look at our obsession with youth and the price we pay for it.

1903. Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson have tickets to the newly arrived Egyptian Circus. Holmes is puzzled by his brother Mycroft's cryptic gift but is intrigued enough to attend the next production. The performers, dressed as wondrous half-animal, half-human gods from Egyptian mythology, display superhuman agility and stunts. But they speak no Arabic, sequester themselves in the stables after each show and take orders from a mysterious ring master who is yet to be seen. And then one of the performers is murdered.

Oscar Wilde’s classic story of a young man who sells his soul in exchange for eternal beauty and youth continues to thrill generations of readers. Written by a man who was every bit as flamboyant and unconventional as its hero, The Picture of Dorian Gray is as haunting today as when it first shocked the British public in 1891. Dorian Gray, young, intelligent, sophisticated, gazes on his freshly painted portrait.

Der schöne und reiche Dorian Gray besitzt ein Portrait von sich. Bei dessen Betrachtung wünscht er sich, dass das Portrait statt seiner altert. Dies geschieht tatsächlich. Dorian Gray wird mit der Zeit immer grausamer zu seinen Mitmenschen. Die Spuren seiner Taten sind ihm nicht anzusehen. Er bleibt immer makellos schön.

I don’t want visitors. But when the butler says the caller is a she, I spring to attention. The night just got a lot more interesting. Turns out the recently orphaned Helia Wallace has come to see my mother, her godmother, for help with a dastardly, dowry-chasing cousin. A likely story. But there’s a snowstorm brewing, and she begs me to let her stay the night. I reluctantly agree. It’s her reputation at stake, not mine.

El retrato de Dorian Gray es considerada una de las últimas obras clásicas de la novela de terror gótica con una fuerte temática faustiana, además muestra un pintor con afecto íntimo y directo con el personaje principal. El libro causó controversia cuando fue publicado por primera vez; sin embargo, es considerado en la actualidad como «uno de los clásicos modernos de la literatura occidental.

Dorian Gray, a handsome and narcissistic young man, lives thoughtlessly for his own pleasure - an attitude encouraged by the company he keeps. One day, after having his portrait painted, Dorian makes a frivolous Faustian wish: that he should always remain as young and beautiful as he is in that painting, while the portrait grows old in his stead.