The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wildes only novel was first published on both sides of the Atlantic by the American periodical Lippincotts Monthly Review on 20th June 1890 Not only did this text provoke a heated debate in the British press in the same year it also became notorious for its being quoted and examined in court in Wildes three trials in the spring of 1895 As a story the novel shows how a young man in a Faustian situation wishes for h...