The Irreverent Classics Study Guide: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Dorian Gray stays young and beautiful while his portrait ages and rots in his place, recording every cruelty and corruption he commits. Oscar Wilde's gothic masterpiece is a story about beauty, influence, conscience, and the price of a life lived for pleasure alone — and it has never been more talked about.

This annotated study edition gives you Wilde's full, unabridged 1891 text, opening with his famous Preface, then adds original discussion questions throughout — four after the Preface, four after each of the 20 chapters, and three closing thematic question sets: 96 in all.

This annotated study edition includes:

The complete, unabridged 1891 text, including Wilde's Preface

96 original discussion questions — including closing questions on the Portrait, Influence, and "the moral of no moral"

Questions written for grades 9–12, homeschool curriculum, AP English prep, and literature circles

A clean, readable layout with full table of contents

The questions interrogate Wilde directly: his aphorisms, his aestheticism, the seductive logic of Lord Henry, and whether a book can truly be "neither moral nor immoral." Ideal for a high school or homeschool English unit, an AP reading, or a book club drawn in by the story's renewed cultural moment.

Part of The Irreverent Classics Study Guide series — complete classic texts paired with original discussion questions. Questions by Hoyt Fischbeck.