The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Original Magazine Edition (Illustrated)
by Oscar Wilde
Softcover
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Description
The Original Magazine Edition
Dorian Gray, a beautiful young man and subject of a painting by the famed Basil Hallward, becomes enthralled by the hedonistic lifestyle of Lord Henry Wotton. Knowing that his beauty will one day fade, Gray desires to exchange his soul for lasting youth. As his lifestyle becomes ever more scandalous it is not his body ages but the painting.
First published in 1890, Wilde’s only novel is philosophical Gothic work that explores the darker side of human nature. It is a manifesto for the Aesthetic Movement and art for art’s sake.
About this edition:
The Picture of Dorian Gray was first published in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine. The contents of the story caused such scandal that the bookseller W. H. Smith withdrew every edition of that month’s magazine.
After of the magazine edition in, Wilde expanded the text from thirteen to twenty chapters and obscured the homoerotic themes of the story, which had received particular criticism.
In the novel version of The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), the third, fifth and fifteenth to eighteenth chapters were added. The final chapter of the magazine edition was divided to become chapters nineteen and twenty of the novel edition.
The edition published here is the original thirteen chapter edition, as published in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine.
Dorian Gray, a beautiful young man and subject of a painting by the famed Basil Hallward, becomes enthralled by the hedonistic lifestyle of Lord Henry Wotton. Knowing that his beauty will one day fade, Gray desires to exchange his soul for lasting youth. As his lifestyle becomes ever more scandalous it is not his body ages but the painting.
First published in 1890, Wilde’s only novel is philosophical Gothic work that explores the darker side of human nature. It is a manifesto for the Aesthetic Movement and art for art’s sake.
About this edition:
The Picture of Dorian Gray was first published in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine. The contents of the story caused such scandal that the bookseller W. H. Smith withdrew every edition of that month’s magazine.
After of the magazine edition in, Wilde expanded the text from thirteen to twenty chapters and obscured the homoerotic themes of the story, which had received particular criticism.
In the novel version of The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), the third, fifth and fifteenth to eighteenth chapters were added. The final chapter of the magazine edition was divided to become chapters nineteen and twenty of the novel edition.
The edition published here is the original thirteen chapter edition, as published in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine.
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Format
Softcover
Pages
190
Price
6.41 €
Description
The Original Magazine Edition
Dorian Gray, a beautiful young man and subject of a painting by the famed Basil Hallward, becomes enthralled by the hedonistic lifestyle of Lord Henry Wotton. Knowing that his beauty will one day fade, Gray desires to exchange his soul for lasting youth. As his lifestyle becomes ever more scandalous it is not his body ages but the painting.
First published in 1890, Wilde’s only novel is philosophical Gothic work that explores the darker side of human nature. It is a manifesto for the Aesthetic Movement and art for art’s sake.
About this edition:
The Picture of Dorian Gray was first published in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine. The contents of the story caused such scandal that the bookseller W. H. Smith withdrew every edition of that month’s magazine.
After of the magazine edition in, Wilde expanded the text from thirteen to twenty chapters and obscured the homoerotic themes of the story, which had received particular criticism.
In the novel version of The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), the third, fifth and fifteenth to eighteenth chapters were added. The final chapter of the magazine edition was divided to become chapters nineteen and twenty of the novel edition.
The edition published here is the original thirteen chapter edition, as published in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine.
Dorian Gray, a beautiful young man and subject of a painting by the famed Basil Hallward, becomes enthralled by the hedonistic lifestyle of Lord Henry Wotton. Knowing that his beauty will one day fade, Gray desires to exchange his soul for lasting youth. As his lifestyle becomes ever more scandalous it is not his body ages but the painting.
First published in 1890, Wilde’s only novel is philosophical Gothic work that explores the darker side of human nature. It is a manifesto for the Aesthetic Movement and art for art’s sake.
About this edition:
The Picture of Dorian Gray was first published in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine. The contents of the story caused such scandal that the bookseller W. H. Smith withdrew every edition of that month’s magazine.
After of the magazine edition in, Wilde expanded the text from thirteen to twenty chapters and obscured the homoerotic themes of the story, which had received particular criticism.
In the novel version of The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), the third, fifth and fifteenth to eighteenth chapters were added. The final chapter of the magazine edition was divided to become chapters nineteen and twenty of the novel edition.
The edition published here is the original thirteen chapter edition, as published in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine.
Book Information
Main Genre
N/A
Sub Genre
N/A
Format
Softcover
Pages
190
Price
6.41 €