The Picture of Dorian Gray is a Gothic and philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Fearing the story was indecent, prior to publication the magazine's editor deleted roughly five hundred words without Wilde's knowledge. Despite that censorship, The Picture …
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The Picture of Dorian Gray is a Gothic and philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Fearing the story was indecent, prior to publication the magazine's editor deleted roughly five hundred words without Wilde's knowledge. Despite that censorship, The Picture of Dorian Gray offended the moral sensibilities of British book reviewers, some of whom said that Oscar Wilde merited prosecution for violating the laws guarding public morality. In response, Wilde aggressively defended his novel and art in correspondence with the British press, although he personally made excisions of some of the most controversial material when revising and lengthening the story for book publication the following year. The longer and revised version of The Picture of Dorian Gray published in book form in 1891 featured an aphoristic preface—a defence of the artist's rights and of art for art's sake—based in part on his press defences of the novel the previous year. The content, style, and presentation of the preface made it famous in its own right, as a literary and artistic manifesto. In April 1891, the publishing firm of Ward, Lock and Company, who had distributed the shorter, more inflammatory, magazine version in England the previous year, published the revised version of The Picture of Dorian Gray.The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only novel written by Wilde. It exists in several versions: the 1890 magazine edition (in 13 chapters), with important material deleted before publication by the magazine's editor, J. M. Stoddart; the "uncensored" version submitted to Lippincott's Monthly Magazine for publication (also in 13 chapters), with all of Wilde's original material intact, first published in 2011 by Harvard University Press; and the 1891 book edition (in 20 chapters). As literature of the 19th century, The Picture of Dorian Gray "pivots on a gothic plot device" with strong themes interpreted from Faust.
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- 1527
- BNF ID:
- 11959847x
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Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray
Hardcover, 252 pages
German language
Published July 15, 2004 by Süddeutsche Zeitung.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-937793-43-6Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 1071991138
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Paperback, 241 pages
English language
Published Aug. 28, 2012 by Penguin.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-119949-8Copied ISBN!
Ein Granatapfelhaus/Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray
Hardcover, 448 pages
German language
Published July 15, 2008 by Marix Verlag.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-86539-190-2Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 634699421
- Goodreads:
- 15707019
The picture of Dorian Gray
316 pages
English language
Published Feb. 26, 2010 by W F Howes.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4074-5403-0Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 620267456
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A Portrait of Dorian Gray
231 pages
English language
Published July 16, 2011 by [CreateSpace].
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4680-1254-5Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 798347279
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Paperback, 208 pages
English language
Published Nov. 8, 2007 by Book Jungle.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-60424-467-0Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 232678037
The picture of Dorian Gray
250 pages
English language
Published Feb. 26, 2005 by Zulma.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-84304-293-5Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 469980064
The picture of Dorian Gray
279 pages
English language
Published July 16, 1998 by Broadview Press.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-55111-126-1Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 37982043
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Paperback, 192 pages
English language
Published Jan. 1, 1992 by Wordsworth Classics.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
CD-ROM
English language
Published Nov. 20, 1997 by Recorded Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4281-0875-2Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 228470594
- Goodreads:
- 83998
The Picture of Dorian Gray
229 pages
English language
Published Jan. 21, 1985 by Tuttle Publishing.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-460-87364-2Copied ISBN!
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Webster's Italian Thesaurus Edition)
Paperback, 256 pages
English language
Published March 5, 2006 by ICON Reference.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-497-89995-0Copied ISBN!
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Paperback, 80 pages
English language
Published Aug. 14, 2000 by Oxford University Press, USA.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-19-423011-7Copied ISBN!
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Paperback, 328 pages
English language
Published Jan. 30, 2006 by Icon Reference.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-497-25310-3Copied ISBN!
The Picture of Dorian Gray
272 pages
English language
Published July 16, 2004 by Modern Library.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-375-75151-6Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 5297
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