Title: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Author: Oscar Wilde
Subjects: Fiction; Paranormal; Supernatural; Philosophical
It is a philosophical novel. In the preface Oscar Wilde writes, "All art is quite useless." But it has noting to do with novel. The theme is aestheticism and its conceptual relation to living a double life. Throughout the story, the narrative presents aestheticism as an absurd abstraction, which disillusions more than it dignifies the concept of Beauty. Still famous.