The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray: The 1890 and 1891 Texts |
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| Editor:
| Bristow, Joseph |
| Series title: | The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-818772-1 |
| Publication Date: | May 2005 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $410.00 |
Book Description:
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This is the third volume in the Oxford English Texts edition of the works of Oscar Wilde, the first volume of which was voted academic book of the year by Choice. This definitive variorum edition of Wilde's 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' reprints the thirteen-chapter and twenty-chapter versions of this famous story as separate works. The volume provides readers with the most detailed account available of the considerable changes that Wilde made to a controversial narrative that appeared...
More DescriptionThis is the third volume in the Oxford English Texts edition of the works of Oscar Wilde, the first volume of which was voted academic book of the year by Choice. This definitive variorum edition of Wilde's 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' reprints the thirteen-chapter and twenty-chapter versions of this famous story as separate works. The volume provides readers with the most detailed account available of the considerable changes that Wilde made to a controversial narrative that appeared in two, very different editions in 1890 and 1891 respectively.