A dark Parisian novella centering on a passionate, possessive, and tragic lesbian love triangle involving a Spanish marquise.

The first American novel with an explicitly gay protagonist and a happy ending, tracking the emotional intimacy and romance between an American aristocrat and a Hungarian military officer.

When a beautiful young man wishes that his portrait would age instead of himself, his desire becomes terrifyingly real. As Dorian pursues a life of pleasure and moral corruption, he remains eternally youthful while his painted image transforms into a horrifying record of his sins. Wilde explores beauty, morality, and the dangerous influence of hedonistic philosophy in this tale of vanity and its consequences.