Oscar Wilde, The Eternal Dandy

OSCAR WILDE — THE UNCENSORED PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY — 2012

The main character is not so much Dorian Gray as Lord Henry Wotton. He is the one who manipulated the seventeen-year-old Dorian Gray as if he were a puppet-master playing with his puppet on its strings and rod, unseen and yet the one who provided society, meaning here the top elite of this society, with the daily…