The Picture of Dorian Gray Critical Edition: Original Unexpurgated 1890, 13-Chapter Version
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Oscar Wilde, Books, Fiction and Literature, The Picture Of Dorian Gray - The Original Classic Edition, A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young mans portrait, his subjects frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Grays picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife, Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden.As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy. But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novels drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wildes supposed aims, not least no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment.

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This volume contains the original, overtly homoerotic version of the book that first appeared in 1890. Following the novel is a series of critical reviews of the book along with letters defending his work, which Wilde wrote to the various publication editors. There is also a detailed list of the passages expurgated from this first edition along with an account of Wilde's trial, in which the prosecutor constantly refers, quite naturally, to the original edition in trying to portray Wilde as homosexual. Other material regarding the novel is presented, as well. The foreword by John Cowper Powys is an inspired defense of Wilde himself and the genius of his personality. The edition contains a new introduction by editor Michael Wilson.

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This volume contains the original, overtly homoerotic version of the book that first appeared in 1890. Following the novel is a series of critical reviews of the book along with letters defending his work, which Wilde wrote to the various publication editors. There is also a detailed list of the passages expurgated from this first edition along with an account of Wilde"s trial, in which the prosecutor constantly refers, quite naturally, to the original edition in trying to portray Wilde as homosexual. Other material regarding the novel is presented, as well. The foreword by John Cowper Powys is an inspired defense of Wilde himself and the genius of his personality. The edition contains a new introduction by editor Michael Wilson. Productinformatie:Taal: Engels;Formaat: Epub zonder kopieerbeveiliging (DRM) ;Kopieerrechten: Het kopiëren van (delen van) de pagina's is niet toegestaan ;ISBN10: 1311529799;ISBN13: 9781311529794; Engels | Ebook | 2015.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Revaluation Books, DEVON, Exeter, [RE:3].
98 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.25 inches. This item is printed on demand. Softcover.

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98 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.25 inches. This item is printed on demand. Books.

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