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

ISBN: 0198187726

Author: Bristow, Joseph

Condition: New

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, enabling the 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 the extraordinarily 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.