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

by Bristow, Joseph

• ISBN13: 9780198187721
• ISBN10: 0198187726
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-05-05
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Editorial Introduction

Bibliographical Description

Abbreviations and Symbols

The Picture Of Dorian Gray (1890)

Textual Notes (1890 Edition)

The Picture Of Dorian Gray (1891)

Textual Notes (1890 Edition)

Commentary

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