Switching gears yet again. Classic novel and I have to admit that I know the story but have never read the book.
Handsome Dorian Gray had his portrait painted at 18. After an admirer stated "life is nothing without beauty and sensuous gratification" Dorian gets scared of growing old and make a fateful wish that the painted image should age rather than himself. Fearless of the consequence, he launches himself into a life of excess and depravity. And every sin that he commit is reflected in the picture. Banishing the portrait to the attic where it becomes so loathsome to Dorian he tries to destroy it.
A shorter read, The Picture of Dorian Gray was one of Irish author and poet Oscar Wilde's acclaimed works of writing.
Its a shorter read but of the older english style
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