Beacon Light Academy’s library is now enhanced with some new books. So, to all the bookworms: now we’ve got a whole list of new books to read and enjoy.
The book I can recommend to you guys today is a classic novel written by Oscar Wilde. It’s the novel ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde. Beautifully set in the 19th century, the book revolves around a beautiful boy named Dorian Gray.
Basil Hallward, a painter, captures Dorian’s beautiful features in a portrait. Dorian and Basil’s mutual friend Henry helps Dorian perceive himself as beautiful and we find Dorian wishing how he could stay like this forever.
Things take a turn when Dorian’s ex-fiancé kills herself because of Dorian. Devastated, Dorian upon seeing the painting once he reaches home sees that his once beautiful smile is now a cruel smile and his once innocent eyes have a hint of wickedness in them. THE PAINTING IS AGING INSTEAD OF HIM!
This multi-perspective book with different opinions and thoughts of different characters will force you to look at certain things in a wholly different way. What happens to Dorian? Will he tell this brutal truth to his friends? What happens to the painting? Find out the answers by reading Oscar Wilde’s classic “The Picture of Dorian Gray”. You can easily grab this book from the school library and give it a read.