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The Picture of Dorian Gray: Penguin Classics Audiobook (Free)

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This Penguin Classic is conducted by Ben Barnes, star from the film adaptation of Dorian Gray, also known for his roles in Westworld as well as the Chronicles of Narnia. This definitive documenting includes an Introduction by Robert Mighall.

Enthralled by his have exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Inspired by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double existence; indulging his wishes in key while staying a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his family portrait bears the traces of his decadence. The novel was a succès de scandale and the publication was later used as evidence against Wilde in the Old Bailey in 1895. They have lost non-e of its power to fascinate and disturb.