The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”

The Picture of Dorian Gray is a Gothic novel by Oscar Wilde in 1890. Dorian Gray is the subject of a portrait in oil by Basil Hallward, an artist fascinated and obsessed by Dorian's charm; he feels that the beauty of Dorian is suitable for the new mood in his art as a painter.