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«The Portrait of Dorian Gray» — is the most famous novel by the great Irish philosopher, writer and poet Oscar Wilde (English Oscar Wilde, 1854–1900). Basil Halward is painting a portrait of the golden-haired handsome Dorian Gray. Admiring the canvas, the careless young man expresses his desire to grow old only in the painting, while in real life he remains forever young. Oscar Wilde is called the «Prince of Paradoxes» — he brought the game of the mind and incredible refinement of thought to perfection in each of the plays he wrote.