The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray’ is a philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published in the July 1890. The plot of the novel varies between each of the published versions. The summary below deals with the longest version, the 1891 novel. However, certain episodes described—in particular Dorian’s encounter with, and murder of, James Vane—do not appear in the version originally submitted by Wilde to Lippincott’s.