The Complete Works Of Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray, The 1890 and 1891 Texts

Zusatztext ...its editorial treatment is exemplary Klappentext Here is a collection of this witty and irreverent author's works--all in their most authoritative texts. Includes The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest, and other stories and essays. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Editorial Introduction Bibliographical Description Abbreviations and Symbols THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (1890) Textual Notes (1890 Edition) THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (1891) Textual Notes (1890 Edition) Commentary

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• Authors: Joseph Bristow, Joseph/ Wilde Bristow, Oscar Wilde
• Assisted by: Joseph Bristow (Editor), Bristow Joseph (Editor), Ian Small (Editor), Small Ian (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.05.2005
• EAN: 9780198187721
• ISBN: 978-0-19-818772-1
• No. of pages: 465
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 222 mm x 32 mm
• Series: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde; Complete Works Oscar Wilde; Complete Works Oscar Wilde; The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Anthologies: general, Anthologies (non-poetry)