Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray

Name: Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray
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ISBN: 9780674066311

ISBN-10: 0674066316

ISBN-13: 9780674066311

Edition: 2011

Authors: Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel

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More than 120 years after Oscar Wilde submitted The Picture of Dorian Gray for publication in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, the uncensored version of his novel appears here for the first time in a paperback edition. This volume restores all of the material removed by the novel’s first editor.Upon receipt of the typescript, Wilde’s editor panicked at what he saw. Contained within its pages was material he feared readers would find “offensive”—especially instances of graphic homosexual content. He proceeded to go through the typescript with his pencil, cleaning it up until he made it “acceptable to the most fastidious taste.” Wilde did not see these changes until his novel appeared in print.…

Book details

List price: $15.50
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 8/13/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748

Nicholas Frankel is Associate Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University.