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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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
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
- Goodreads:
- 1790351
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Paperback, 241 pages
English language
Published Aug. 28, 2012 by Penguin.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-119949-8Copied ISBN!
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Hardcover, 352 pages
English language
Published Nov. 19, 2020 by Independently Published.
- ISBN:
- 979-8-6795-3900-6Copied ISBN!
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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
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
304 pages
English language
Published July 16, 2003
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-143957-0Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 489732
The picture of Dorian Gray
517 pages
English language
Published Nov. 19, 2006 by W. W. Norton & Co..
- ISBN:
- 978-0-393-92754-2Copied ISBN!
Le Portrait de Dorian Gray
Mass Market Paperback, 319 pages
French language
Published Dec. 16, 1997 by Flammarion.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-08-070764-2Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 40502075
- Goodreads:
- 303505
The Picture of Dorian Gray
312 pages
English language
Published June 30, 1992 by Wordsworth Classics.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-85326-015-5Copied ISBN!
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
The Picture of Dorian Gray
English language
Published July 16, 2011
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-144246-4Copied ISBN!
Le Portrait de Dorian Gray
Mass Market Paperback, 253 pages
French language
Published Dec. 19, 1972 by LGF.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-253-00288-8Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 1680079
The Picture of Dorian Gray
English language
Published June 1, 2001
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-043784-3Copied ISBN!
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
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