The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde Volume 3: The Picture of Dorian Gray: The 1890 and 1891 Texts

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The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde Volume 3: The Picture of Dorian Gray: The 1890 and 1891 Texts by Bristow, Joseph, 9780198187721
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  • ISBN: 9780198187721 | 0198187726
  • Cover: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 5/5/2005

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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, enablingthe 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 theextraordinarily 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.