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The synopsis of the novel is this. Mr. Gray is a male model in an oil painting. The painter's surname was Howart, and he was fascinated by Gray's handsome appearance. He believed that he was so handsome that he could lead a new style of painting. Gray met Sir Henry Wotton through the painter Howart. Sir Wharton was curious and fascinated by the hedonistic attitude towards life. Sir Wharton believes that the most important and most worthy pursuit in life is to have beauty and satisfy physical desires. Gray listened to this point of view and became convinced. He realizes that his beauty will eventually fade away. So Gray came up with a twist: He wanted to sell his soul in exchange for him in the painting instead of in real life, and instead of him, he would start to age and die. This wish actually came true. Gray then pursues all kinds of unclean and morally flawed lives in real life, and at the same time, he can still keep his appearance ageless, handsome and handsome. It's just that the person in the painting, that is, himself, ages like a normal person, and every evil deed of his is recorded.

Everyone who knows something about foreign literature will be familiar with the name Oscar Wilde. Born in Dublin, he was an Irish writer, poet, playwright, advocate of the British aestheticism art movement, the main force of the aesthetic movement in the 1880s and the pioneer of the decadent movement in the 1990s. This set of books is a collection of Oscar Wilde's fairy tales. It is the original English version and should not be missed by English lovers. "Pomegranate House" is also called "Pomegranate House", including "The Young King", "The Birthday of the Spanish Princess", "The Fisherman and His Soul" and "Star Child". Wilde adopts the genre of fairy tales and uses fairy tales as "masks" to expose and criticize the ugliness and cruelty of real society. This is the most important feature of its fairy tales and also the important value of its fairy tales. Most of the themes of Oscar Wilde's fairy tales reveal the cruelty and ugliness of the world, ending with a cruel tragedy in which good deeds are not rewarded. The work has a distinct anti-traditional fairy tale theme. He strives to make people understand the cruel and desolate reality of the world through the tragic ending of good deeds not being rewarded. He replaces the moral education theme of traditional fairy tales of "good will be rewarded with good and evil will be punished with evil" with satire and criticism of the ugliness in cold reality.