A beautiful young man stays youthful while his portrait ages and rots with his sins — Wilde's fable of aestheticism and corruption.
Books mentioned in The Picture of Dorian Gray (3)
Manon Lescaut by Abbé Prévost: “So the lad was looking rather sulky, as with listless fingers he turned over the pages of an elaborately illustrated edition of Manon Lescaut that he had found in one of the book-cases.”
The Satyricon by Petronius: “…indeed, a subtle pleasure in the thought that he might really become to the London of his own day what to imperial Neronian Rome the author of the Satyricon once had been, yet in his inmost heart he desired to be something more than a mere _arbiter elegantiarum_, to be consulted on the wearing…”
Émaux et Camées by Théophile Gautier: “It was Gautier's Emaux et Camees, Charpentier's Japanese-paper edition, with the Jacquemart etching.”
Books that mention The Picture of Dorian Gray (3)
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald: “I’ve just finished a book of his, ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’”
Notes on Camp by Susan Sontag: “...this conservatism is reflected in The Picture of Dorian Gray.”
On Literature by Umberto Eco: “Let us reread The Picture of Dorian Gray”