'It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances' Lord Wotton

The young, naive, and astonishingly beautiful Dorian Gray meets the cynical and hedonistic Lord Wotton, with whom he begins to explore the more pleasurable, less ethical sides of London. While he enjoys a life of sin and excess, his innocent beauty remains untainted, almost as if he'd made a devil's bargain to keep it.

Wilde's only novel was considered indecent and corruptive when it was published in 1891 - in ...