The Picture of Dorian Gray

Chapter—1Q1. Who was Basil Hallward?Q2. What did Lord Henry tell Basil about his married life?Chapter—2Q1. When did Basil see Dorian Gray for the first time?Q2. Who was Dorian Gray?Chapter—3Q1. When both Basil and Lord Henry entered, they saw Dorian Gray. What was Dorian Gray doing?Q2. Who said to whom? ‘Yes, Mr Gray; the gods have […]

Chapter-10 ‘There is no good telling me you are going to be good, Dorian,’ cried Lord Henry, dipping his white fingers into a red coppwwwer bowl filled with rose-water. ‘You are quite perfect. Please don’t change.’Dorian shook his head. ‘No, Harry, I have done too many dreadful things in my life. I am not going

Chapter-9 At nine o’clock the next morning his servant came in with a cup of chocolate on a tray, and opened the shutters. Dorian was sleeping quite peacefully, lying on his right side, with one hand underneath his cheek. He looked like a boy who had been tired out with play, or study.The man had

Chapter-8 He passed out of the room, and began the ascent, Basil Hallward following close behind. They walked softly, as men instinctively do at night. The lamp cast fantastic shadows on the wall and staircase. A rising wind made some of the windows rattle.When they reached the top landing, Dorian set the lamp down on

Chapter-7 It was on the 7th of November, the eve of his own thirty-second birthday, as he often remembered afterwards.He was walking home about eleven o’clock from Lord Henry’s, where he had been dining, and was wrapped in heavy furs, as the night was cold and foggy. At the corner of Grosvenor Square and South

Chapter-6 When his servant entered, he looked at him steadfastly, and wondered if he had thought of peering behind the screen. The man was quite impassive, and waited for his orders. Dorian lit a cigarette, and walked over to the glass and glanced into it. He could see the reflection of Victor’s face perfectly. It

Chapter-5 I suppose you have heard the news, Basil?’ said Lord Henry on the following evening, as Hallward was shown into a little private room at the Bristol where dinner had been laid for three.‘No, Harry,’ answered Hallward, giving his hat and coat to the bowing waiter, ‘What is it? Nothing about politics, I hope.

Chapter-4 Dorian Gray listened, open-eyed and wondering. The spray of lilac fell from his hand upon the gravel. A furry bee came and buzzed round it for a moment. Then it began to scramble all over the fretted purple of the tiny blossoms. He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we

Chapter-3 As they entered they saw Dorian Gray. He was seated at the piano, with his back to them, turning over the pages of a volume of Schumann’s ‘Forest Scenes.’ ‘You must lend me these, Basil,’ he cried. ‘I want to learn them. They are perfectly charming.’‘That entirely depends on how you sit today, Dorian.’‘Oh,

Chapter-2 The wind shook some blossoms from the trees, and the heavy lilac blooms, with their clustering stars, moved to and fro in the languid air. A grasshopper began to chirrup in the grass, and a long thin dragon-fly floated by on its brown gauze wings. Lord Henry felt as if he could hear Basil

Chapter-1 Lord Henry Wotton could just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured blossoms of the laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flame-like as theirs; and now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched