When the handsome Dorian Gray has his portrait painted, he jokes that it is unfair for him to grow old and the portrait to stay young.
Dorian lives a life of pleasure, coldly hurting anyone close to him, including the beautiful Sybil Vane. Time withers everything, but not Dorian; he stays young, his face unchanged by signs of old age.
But he has a terrible secret that haunts him.
Read the story and find out what it is.
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B2 (CEF)
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