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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- 11959847x
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
304 pages
English language
Published March 9, 2009 by Penguin Books.
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- 978-0-14-144246-4Copied ISBN!
The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Short Stories (Signet Classics)
305 pages
English language
Published 1995
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- 978-0-451-52601-4Copied ISBN!
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The picture of Dorian Gray
240 pages
English language
Published Sept. 1, 1999
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- 978-0-8125-6711-3Copied ISBN!
The Picture of Dorian Gray
140 pages
English language
Published July 23, 2015
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- 978-1-5151-9099-8Copied ISBN!
The picture of Dorian Gray
280 pages
English language
Published 1998
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- 978-1-55111-126-1Copied ISBN!
The Picture of Dorian Gray
266 pages
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Published June 1, 1998 by Modern Library.
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- 978-0-375-75151-6Copied ISBN!
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
253 pages
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Published Feb. 4, 2003 by Penguin Classics.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
80 pages
English language
Published March 15, 2008 by Oxford University Press.
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- 978-0-19-479126-7Copied ISBN!
The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings
487 pages
English language
Published Oct. 1, 1982 by Bantam Books.
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- 978-0-553-21254-9Copied ISBN!
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- 390353
The Picture of Dorian Gray
165 pages
English language
Published Oct. 13, 1993 by Dover Publications.
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- 978-0-486-27807-0Copied ISBN!
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- 752815
The Picture of Dorian Gray
252 pages
English language
Published June 1, 2001 by Penguin Books.
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- 978-0-14-043784-3Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
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Colour Classics Picture Of Dorian Gray
304 pages
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Published Aug. 29, 2006 by Penguin Books.
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The picture of Dorian Gray : authoritative texts, backgrounds, reviews and reactions, criticism
517 pages
English language
Published 2007 by W. W. Norton & Company.
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- 978-0-393-92754-2Copied ISBN!
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The Picture Of Dorian Gray
230 pages
English language
Published 2006 by Oxford University Press.
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Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray
Taschenbuch, 280 pages
German language
Published Feb. 26, 1986 by Diogenes.
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- 978-3-257-21411-6Copied ISBN!
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