From: The Picture of Dorian Gray: A Portrait of a Rotten Soul
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Oscar Wilde wrote only one novel during his lifetime.

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Wilde was famous for his witty plays, poetry, and essays. But he only ever published one full-length novel. That novel was The Picture of Dorian Gray. It first came out as a shorter story in a magazine in 1890, and then as a longer book in 1891.

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The artist Ivan Albright painted the famous grotesque portrait for the 1945 movie adaptation.
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The novel was used as evidence against Oscar Wilde in his 1895 trial.
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