The Opium Dens and Dorian's Double Life

From The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Dorian's nocturnal descents into the dockside opium dens dramatize the gothic doubleness of late-Victorian London and his split existence.
Chapter 16

The journey through fog-bound streets to the opium den, one of the novel's most atmospheric gothic sequences.

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