This book takes Beauty as already existing and enjoyed, and seeks to analyze and account.

THE human being who thrills to the experience of beauty in nature and in art does not forever rest.

A beautiful young man, Dorian Gray, sits for a portrait. In the garden of the artist's house he falls into conversation with Lord Wotton.

Stephen Glennard is in desperate need of money; his career is in ruins and he wants to marry his beautiful fiancee.