ESL English Bits Homepage	The Picture of Dorian Gray
Narrated by: Anna Grace, Nik Sliwerski, Andrew Coleman, Lance Rasmussen, Amanda Friday, Sarah Mitchell, Tyler Hyrchuk	Written by Oscar Wilde
	In Oscar Wilde's haunting gothic novel, Dorian Gray, a stunningly beautiful young man, makes a fateful wish to preserve his youth forever—with his portrait bearing the burden of his moral decay. Influenced by the hedonistic Lord Henry Wotton, Dorian descends into a life of sensual indulgence and increasingly wicked deeds, watching in horror as his hidden portrait becomes grotesquely disfigured with each sin, while he remains eternally young and beautiful. As decades pass and his reputation darkens, Dorian discovers that one cannot escape the consequences of one's actions, leading to a shocking and tragic finale that reveals the true price of vanity, corruption, and the desperate human desire to evade the ravages of time and conscience
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