Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray (Hardback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Picture of Dorian GrayCondition: NewEAN: 9780674057920ISBN: 9780674057920Publisher: The Belknap PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 04/11/2011Item Height: 241mmItem Length: 229mmAuthor: Oscar WildeContributor: Nicholas Frankel (Edited by)Language: EnglishSubtitle: An Annotated, Uncensored EditionISBN-10: 0674057929Description: The Picture of Dorian Gray altered the way Victorians understood the world they inhabited. It heralded the end of a repressive Victorianism, and after its publication, literature had—in the words of biographer Richard Ellmann—“a different look.” Yet the Dorian Gray that Victorians never knew was even more daring than the novel the British press condemned as “vulgar,” “unclean,” “poisonous,” “discreditable,” and “a sham.” Now, more than 120 years after Wilde handed it over to his publisher, J. B. Lippincott & Company, Wilde’s uncensored typescript is published for the first time, in an annotated, extensively illustrated edition.The novel’s first editor, J. M. Stoddart, excised material—especially homosexual content—he thought would offend his readers’ sensibilities. When Wilde enlarged the novel for the 1891 edition, he responded to his critics by further toning down its “immoral” elements. The differences between the text Wilde submitted to Lippincott and published versions of the novel have until now been evident to only the handful of scholars who have examined Wilde's typescript.Wilde famously said that Dorian Gray “contains much of me”: Basil Hallward is “what I think I am,” Lord Henry “what the world thinks me,” and “Dorian what I would like to be—in other ages, perhaps.” Wilde’s comment suggests a backward glance to a Greek or Dorian Age, but also a forward-looking view to a more permissive time than his own, which saw Wilde sentenced to two years’ hard labor for gross indecency. The appearance of Wilde’s uncensored text is cause for celebration.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Literary CriticismTopic: Fiction, Classic FictionRelease Year: 2011 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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