"Portrait of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde, from the publication (1890) had won notoriety and caused contradictory assessment contemporaries, became a literary manifesto of European aesthetics and a masterpiece of English prose. Defiantly refusing to didactic and moralistic Victorian literature, Wilde, however, wrote a deeply moral book where art avenges trampled beauty, devoted love and desecrated Garmoniyu.Dramatichnaya, paradoxical, fascinating, intriguing story of Dorian Gray - a shining example of the "perfect use of the imperfect means "in which, according to Wilde, and is" the ethics of art. "