Dorian Gray was a son of Margaret Devereux and a young man. Margaret was extraordinary beautiful girl, she ran away with a poor young fellow. But he was killed in a duel at Spa a few months after the marriage. The girl, too, died within a year. But she left a son. As we may guess it was Dorian. After Dorian mother's death he was left to the tyranny of an old and loveless man.

At the beginning of the novel, Dorian Gray existed as something of an ideal: he was wonderfully handsome, with his frank blue eyes, curved scarlet lips, and his crisp gold hair. There was something in his face that made one trust him at once. One felt that he had kept himself unspotted from the world. He captured the imagination of Basil Hallward.

Basil was a talented painter. He loved Dorian and his love...