The Picture of Dorian Gray
Wilde's only novel: a portrait ages so its subject need not, narrated in epigrams that still land.
- Listening time
- about 8 h 30 min
- Length
- 78,906 words
- First published
- 1890
- Public domain
- the author died in 1900
- Edition
- Edition and cover by Standard Ebooks, released CC0
- Download in the app
- 438 KB stored on your device
- Language
- English
- Shelf
- Start Here
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Free. Open the app, go to Discover, find the title and tap Get. It narrates on your device in the voice you choose, your own included. View the edition at standardebooks.org.
How it begins.
The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.
The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · 1890
- AdamStandardAmerican · male · the free engine0:13
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