Picture of Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Oscar Wilde
• Narrated By Michael Page
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This novel is indeed a morality tale about the hazards of egotistical self-indulgence. Dorian Grey's pact with evil allows his portrait to take on his many sins and degradations while his physical appearance remains youthful. Over the years as he becomes cruel and vicious, even murderous, Dorian's young and perfect body is no longer enough to salvage his deteriorating mind and morality. Will justice and good prevail?

The Picture of Dorian Gray

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Oscar Wilde
• Narrated By Simon Prebble
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Oscar Wilde brings his enormous gifts for astute social observation and sparkling prose to The Picture of Dorian Gray, the dreamlike story of a young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty. This dandy, who remains forever unchanged---petulant, hedonistic, vain, and amoral---while a painting of him ages and grows increasingly hideous with the years, has been horrifying and enchanting readers for more than 100 years.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 4 mins)
• By Oscar Wilde
• Narrated By Steven Crossley

Oscar Wilde’s classic story of a young man who sells his soul in exchange for eternal beauty and youth continues to thrill generations of readers. Written by a man who was every bit as flamboyant and unconventional as its hero, The Picture of Dorian Gray is as haunting today as when it first shocked the British public in 1891. Dorian Gray, young, intelligent, sophisticated, gazes on his freshly painted portrait.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 37 mins)
• By Oscar Wilde
• Narrated By Alec Sand
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A young man commits all types of sin, but only his portrait shows the ravages of his life. Oscar Wilde’s Faustian classic. Gothic horror at it's best.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Oscar Wilde
• Narrated By Simon Vance
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Dorian Gray, a handsome and narcissistic young man, lives thoughtlessly for his own pleasure. One day, after having his portrait painted, Dorian makes a frivolous Faustian wish: that he should always remain as young and beautiful as he is in that painting, while the portrait grows old in his stead.

The wish comes true, and Dorian soon finds that none of his wicked actions have visible consequences. Realizing that he will appear fresh and unspoiled no matter what kind of life he lives, Dorian becomes increasingly corrupt. Only the portrait grows degenerate and ugly, a powerful symbol of Dorian's internal ruin.

The Picture of Dorian Gray (Dramatised)

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 58 mins)
• By Oscar Wilde, Jamie Glover

A BBC Radio full-cast dramatisation of Wilde's gothic masterpiece. When Dorian Gray gazes upon his portrait, he is struck by his own youth and beauty and makes a wish that they will last forever. Gradually, his simple good nature is corrupted with the help of his hedonistic friend Lord Henry Wotton. Dorian sinks into a life of debauchery and depravity yet keeps his innocent good looks. Only his portrait reveals the true corruption of his soul Starring Jamie Glover as Dorian Gray and Ian McDiarmid as Lord Henry Wotton.

El retrato de Dorian Gray [The Picture of Dorian Gray]

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 25 mins)
• By Oscar Wilde
• Narrated By Aurora de la Iglesia del Prado

El retrato de Dorian Gray es considerada una de las últimas obras clásicas de la novela de terror gótica con una fuerte temática faustiana, además muestra un pintor con afecto íntimo y directo con el personaje principal. El libro causó controversia cuando fue publicado por primera vez; sin embargo, es considerado en la actualidad como «uno de los clásicos modernos de la literatura occidental.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 10 mins)
• By Oscar Wilde
• Narrated By Edward Petherbridge
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"If it were I who were to be always young and the picture to grow old, I would give my soul for it." So says Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde's brilliant creation who sells his soul for youth and beauty.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Oscar Wilde
• Narrated By Edward Petherbridge
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Basil Hallward, an artist, meets Dorian Gray and paints his portrait. The artist is so infatuated with Dorian's beauty that he begins to believe it is the reason for his quality of art. Dorian becomes convinced that beauty is all-important and wishes his portrait could age instead of him. But each time Dorian commits a sin his portrait ages, showing him what is happening to his soul.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Oscar Wilde
• Narrated By Greg Wise
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Oscar Wilde's enduring masterpiece, this fable of innocence and corruption, purity and decay has become a true classic. The beautiful, narcissistic Dorian Gray, torn between the influence of cynical hedonist Lord Henry Wotton and tortured artist Basil Hallward, sells the beauty of his soul in exchange for external perfection. Ultimately, he cannot escape the disfigurement of sin. Wilde's remarkable wit and memorable, epigrammatic lines dazzle in audiobook form!

The Picture of Dorian Gray

• ABRIDGED (5 hrs and 47 mins)
• By Oscar Wilde
• Narrated By John Moffatt

A story of evil, debauchery, and scandal, Oscar Wilde’s only novel tells of Dorian Gray, a beautiful yet corrupt man. When he wishes that a perfect portrait of himself would bear the signs of ageing in his place, the picture becomes his hideous secret, as it follows Dorian’s own downward spiral into cruelty and depravity. The Picture of Dorian Gray is a masterpiece of deals made in fear and ignorance, and the evil in men’s hearts, and is as controversial and alluring as Wilde himself.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

• ABRIDGED (2 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Oscar Wilde
• Narrated By Rupert Graves

Artist Basil Hallward becomes enthralled by Dorian's beauty and paints a stunning and lifelike picture of him. When the picture is completed, Dorian looks at it and declares that he would sell his soul to be as youthful and beautiful as the painting forever. In a classic case of 'be careful what you wish for', his wish is granted - but is it a blessing or a curse to have free reign to live to excess without any fear of the ravages of age or even of death?

The Picture of Dorian Gray (Dramatized)

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 36 mins)
• By Oscar Wilde
• Narrated By Pauline Brailsford, Thomas Carroll, Colleen Crimmins, and others

A full-cast dramatization of one of the great classics of contemporary Western literature. Dorian Gray, an effete young gentleman, is the subject of a striking portrait by the artist Basil Hallward. Gray’s narcissism is awakened, and he embraces a lifestyle of hedonism and casual cruelties. Increasingly consumed by his own vanity, he is forced to confront his true inner-self, in a manner that is as shocking as it is terrifying.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 29 mins)
• By Oscar Wilde
• Narrated By Grenville Peter Mills
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The Picture of Dorian Gray is Oscar Wilde's only novel, perhaps because he realized that he could never again equal this timeless masterpiece. It is a unique work, both thought-provoking and horrifying. It vacillates between seemingly aimless conversation and riveting narrative in telling the story of a young man's quest for eternal youth and beauty, a quest that ends in scandal and depravity. It has been adapted numerous times for television, film, and the stage.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Oscar Wilde
• Narrated By Dick Hill
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Dorian Gray, a beautiful young man, sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty after viewing a picture of himself drawn by artist Basil Hallward. Dorian Gray's picture grows old and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."

The Picture of Dorian Gray (Adaptation): Oxford Bookworms Library

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 17 mins)
• By Oscar Wilde, Jennifer Bassett (adaptation)
• Narrated By Ken Shanley

"When we are happy, we are always good," says Lord Henry, "but when we are good, we are not always happy." Lord Henry’s lazy, clever words lead the young Dorian Gray into a world where it is better to be beautiful than to be good; a world where anything can be forgiven - even murder - if it can make people laugh at a dinner party. Oxford Bookworms Library reader for learners of English, adapted from the Oscar Wilde original by Jill Nevile.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

• ABRIDGED (2 hrs and 46 mins)
• By Oscar Wilde
• Narrated By Simon Callow

Condemned as immoral when it was first published in 1890, Oscar Wilde's tale of the beautiful young man who "sold himself to the devil for a pretty face" follows the fortunes of Dorian Gray when his prayer for eternal youth as he contemplates his newly finished portrait is answered.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

• ABRIDGED (2 hrs and 56 mins)
• By Oscar Wilde
• Narrated By Rupert Graves

Oscar Wilde's only novel, given a superbly splendid modern reading by the talented Rupert Graves. Many classic Wilde quotes emanate from this horror novel.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs)
• By Oscar Wilde
• Narrated By Dan Lazar
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