Chapter 2
If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that -- for that -- I would give everything! I would give my soul for that!Read in Books4Free →
The Faustian Wish
From The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Dorian's wish that the portrait age in his place is the supernatural pact that drives the entire plot.
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