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The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Volume III: The Picture of Dorian Gray: The 1890 and 1891 Texts

Series: Complete Works Oscar Wilde
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This volume presents the 1890 and 1891 editions of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, offering a unique variorum edition that showcases the thirteen-chapter and twenty-chapter versions as distinct texts. Readers can explore the significant revisions Wilde made to his famous novel over eighteen months, gaining insight into the evolution of this controversial narrative.
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Format: Hardback
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Essential reading for literary scholars, Wilde enthusiasts, and students of Victorian literature who appreciate comprehensive textual analysis and historical context.

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Reprints the thirteen-chapter and twenty-chapter versions of the famous story, "The Picture of Dorian Gray", as separate works. This volume provides readers with a detailed account of the considerable changes that Wilde made to a controversial narrative that appeared in two, very different editions in 1890 and 1891 respectively.

Includes both versions of The Picture of Dorian Gray

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This is the first variorum edition of the 1890 and 1891 editions of Oscar Wilde's controversial novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. Drawing on manuscripts and a typescript, this volume reprints the thirteen-chapter and twenty-chapter versions of Wilde's narrative as separate works, enabling the reader to see the considerable changes that Wilde made to his famous story across a period of eighteen months.

This variorum edition contains a comprehensive introduction that provides full bibliographical information about the two editions, as well as a detailed commentary that illuminates the extraordinarily wide range of references that Wilde makes to a broad repertoire of sources.

This volume will be the definitive edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray for many years to come.

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Praised for its exemplary editorial treatment, this edition is recognised by critics such as Peter Hollindale in The Review of English Studies for its scholarly rigour and detailed commentary.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780198187721

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 03 March 2005

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Oxford University Press

Illustration: 5 halftones

Contributors:

  • Edited by Ian Small
  • Edited by Joseph Bristow

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 34.0mm

Width: 148.0mm

Height: 224.0mm

Weight: 782g

Pages: 544

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