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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- LibraryThing key:
- 1527
- BNF ID:
- 11959847x
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El Retrato De Dorian Gray / The Picture of Dorian Gray
Hardcover, 281 pages
Spanish language
Published Aug. 26, 2003 by Longseller.
- ISBN:
- 978-987-550-322-9Copied ISBN!
El Retrato De Dorian Gray / The Picture of Dorian Gray (Basica De Bolsillo)
Paperback, 270 pages
Spanish language
Published June 30, 1998 by Akal Ediciones.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-7600-022-9Copied ISBN!
Dorian Gray'in Portresi
paperback, 312 pages
Published May 25, 2019 by Karbon Kitaplar - Cep Kitaplar.
- ISBN:
- 978-625-7997-45-4Copied ISBN!
The Picture of Dorian Gray
paperback, 188 pages
Published Aug. 6, 2012 by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4783-7553-1Copied ISBN!
The Picture of Dorian Gray
paperback, 208 pages
Published April 24, 2018 by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-7173-4739-8Copied ISBN!
The Picture of Dorian Gray
paperback, 272 pages
Published June 15, 2008 by Oxford University Press.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-19-953598-9Copied ISBN!
Het portret van Dorian Gray
Paperback, 208 pages
Dutch language
Published Feb. 26, 1978 by Het Spectrum.
- ISBN:
- 978-90-274-2101-2Copied ISBN!
The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition
304 pages
Published April 11, 2011 by Belknap Press.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-674-05792-0Copied ISBN!
Retrato de Dorian Gray, El
Hardcover
Spanish language
Published Aug. 26, 2000 by Longseller.
- ISBN:
- 978-950-739-871-1Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 52104987
El Retrato De Dorian Gray / The Picture of Dorian Gray
Paperback, 299 pages
Spanish language
Published June 30, 2005 by Alianza.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-206-3443-2Copied ISBN!
Dorian Grayn muotokuva
363 pages
Finnish language
Published July 16, 2009
- ISBN:
- 978-951-1-23479-1Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 12655951
Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray
Taschenbuch, 280 pages
German language
Published Feb. 26, 1986 by Diogenes.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-257-21411-6Copied ISBN!
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Paperback
English language
Published Oct. 1, 1971 by Pocket.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-671-47191-0Copied ISBN!
The pictvre of Dorian Gray
334 pages
English language
Published Feb. 26, 1904 by Charterhouse Press.
- OCLC Number:
- 7581124
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Marvel Illustrated)
152 pages
Published Aug. 27, 2008 by Marvel.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7851-2654-6Copied ISBN!
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