The novel that scandalized Victorian England In a London studio, two men contemplate the portrait of another-younger and more beautiful-man. Despite Lord Henry Wotton's urging, Basil Hallward refuses to show his painting in public-there is too much of his true feeling for the subject in it. "I will not bare my soul to their shallow, prying eyes," he declares. "My heart shall never be put under their microscope." Instead, it is Dorian Gray's soul put under the microscope of this unforgettable novel. Influenced by the cynical, hedonistic Lord Henry, Dorian becomes infatuated with his own youth a |