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This book was written by Oscar Wilde in the year of 1980 in the Victorian era, is a novel and

one of the most famous book in the world, this book have a lot of a adaptations in movies
and serials like a Penny Dreadful and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
The story takes place around 100 years ago in London England, the principal character is
Dorian gray a fascinating and lovely young man with a lot of money, the history starts when
Dorian captures to Basil Hallward with his beauty so Basil decided to paint the Mr. Gray
when the painter end the portrait Lord Henry Wotton look the piece and he really love the
portrait but he did not know who the portrait person was, Lord Henry Wotton search the
name of the person with the high society of London and this way meets Dorian gray.
In the first reunion of Dorian and Lord Henry, Lord Henry upsets Dorian with a speech about
the nature of beauty and youth. Worried that these, his beauty is fading day by day, Dorian
curses his portrait, which he believes will one day remind him of the beauty he will have lost,
but this is only the beginning, Lord Henry shows to Dorian a new style of life with the principal
and important think in the world is the beauty and the passion, so urges him to live his youth
intensely.

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