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• Dorian secures the picture and locks it away in a room upstairs. He wishes that the picture could bear all the burden of his sins and his aging instead of himself. He meets Lord Henry Wotton, who proves to be his mentor of depraved life.
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• Dorian continues to indulge in dissipation, and the picture becomes uglier with time. At last Doring loses patience with the increasingly withered, wrinkled face on the picture, and decides to destroy it.He stab it through with a knife, and hears a deathly scream from himself. When his servants come, they find the dead body of their master with a face exactly like that on the picture.
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• His plays Lady Tindermere’s Fan(1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ideal Husband(1895), and The Importance of Being Earnest(1895) all enjoyed amazing popularity in his time. It is good to add that Wilde wrote a good number of short stories, one sizeable collection of which is the Happy Prince and Other Tales.