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The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray

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Notes From Your Bookseller
Notes From Your Bookseller

The Picture of Dorian Gray was controversial when it first came out, and that was the heavily edited version. This is the unedited version, the way Oscar Wilde intended it, and it is worth exploring even if you’ve read the original published manuscript.

“Now, for the first time, we can read the version that Wilde intended…Both the text and Nicholas Frankel’s introduction make for fascinating reading.” —Paris Review

More than 120 years after Oscar Wilde submitted The Picture of Dorian Gray for publication in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, the uncensored version of his novel appears here for the first time in a paperback edition. This volume restores all of the material removed by the book’s first editor.

Upon receipt of the typescript, Wild...

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