Le portrait de Dorian Gray
By Oscar Wilde (translated by Albert Savine)
Cover: Nocturne in Blue and Silver by James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
A French translation of Oscar Wilde's novel. A beautiful young man, admired by a painter and led on by a witty lord, wishes that his portrait could grow old in his place, and the wish is granted. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
Summary written with Claude Opus 5.5.