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Read The Picture of Dorian Gray online, free
Oscar Wilde · 1890
The whole book, free in your browser: about 5 hours 40 minutes of reading, 79,057 words. There is nothing to install, no account to make and no ads.
How it begins
The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the…
Read it by a campfire
A fire suits it: its long talks in London drawing rooms, and a portrait kept locked away at the top of the house.
The button above opens the book with a crackling campfire, its weather over the page. The sound starts with your first tap or key in the reader, and the sound panel changes the scene or turns it off. More about it: Campfire sounds for reading.
The same sounds in the Android app
Silent Book for Android has the same six sounds and both pianos, over your own EPUB, FB2 and PDF books on your phone. It is free, with no daily limit, no ads while you read and no sign-in needed. The sounds come with the app, so they play with no connection.
Silent Book opens on Google Play country by country, so it may not be in yours yet.
Questions
Is The Picture of Dorian Gray free to read here?
Yes. The whole book is free to read on this site, with no ads and no time limit. Standard Ebooks, whose edition this is, dedicates it to the public domain.
Do I need to install anything or sign up?
No. The book opens in your browser: there is nothing to install, no account to make and no ads. This browser keeps your place in it.
Can I read it with rain or another sound?
Yes. The button on this page opens it with a crackling campfire. The sound button in the reader offers six scenes, spring rain, a summer night, autumn wind, a winter hush, a campfire and sea waves, each with its weather over the page, free with no time limit.
Can I download The Picture of Dorian Gray as an EPUB?
Yes, from Standard Ebooks, whose edition the reader opens: its page for The Picture of Dorian Gray offers the EPUB free, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. Our guide to free e-books shows how to download it and open it here.
Can I read it on my phone?
Yes. The reader works in your phone's browser too, with nothing to install. There is also Silent Book for Android, which reads your own EPUB, FB2 and PDF files with the same six sounds; it opens on Google Play country by country, so it may not be in yours yet.
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Text: Standard Ebooks, whose edition is dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0; Standard Ebooks does not endorse this site. The reader's notice names every source. The cover is an illustration generated with Google Gemini.