The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Monday, October 11 through Friday, October 29, 2021. Read by Norman Gilliland.

In Oscar Wilde’s only novel, he forges a devastating portrait of the effects of evil and debauchery on a young man in late-19th-century England. Combining elements of the Gothic horror novel and decadent French fiction, the book centers on a beautiful, young man named Dorian Gray, who in a fleeting moment wishes that he could have eternal youth and beauty while his recently painted portrait would age instead. His wish granted, he begins to descend into a life of crime and gross sensuality, while the portrait grows day by day into a hideous record of evil, which he must keep hidden from the world.

(Public Domain)

Theme: Waldszenen, Robert Schumann, Marc-Andre Hamelin, Hyperion Records