The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition ISBN-13: 9780674057920

ISBN-13: 9780674057920

Binding: Hardcover

Author: Wilde, Oscar

Details: 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 fur

Release Date: 11-04-2011

Package Dimensions: 9.8 x 9.4 x 1.1 inches

Languages: English

Part Number: 78 color illustrations, 1 color map

Edition: Annotated

Features:

• Used Book in Good Condition

Format: Illustrated

Number Of Pages: 304