"The Picture of Dorian Gray" is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde. First published in July 1890 in the Monthly Journal of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, and later published in a separate book in April 1891, supplemented by a special introduction, which became a manifesto of aesthetics, as well as six new chapters. Some chapters have been completely redesigned.
After the publication of the novel in society a scandal broke out. All English criticism condemned him as an immoral work, and some critics demanded that he be banned, and the author of the novel - to judicial punishment. Wilde was accused of insulting public morals. However, the novel was accepted enthusiastically by ordinary readers. The genre is a philosophical novel written in a decadent style.
