The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated Uncensored Edition
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The Picture of Dorian Gray altered the way Victorians understood the world they inhabited. It heralded the end of a repressive Victorianism and after its publication literature hadin the words of biographer Richard Ellmann";a different look."; Yet the Dorian Gray that Victorians never knew was even more daring than the novel the British press condemned as ";vulgar "; ";unclean "; ";poisonous "; ";discreditable "; and ";a sham."; Now more than 120 years after Wilde handed it over to his publisher J. B. Lippincott & Company Wildes uncensored typescript is published for the first time in an annotated extensively illustrated edition.The novels first editor J. M. Stoddart excised materialespecially homosexual contenthe thought would offend his readers sensibilities. When Wilde enlarged the novel for the 1891 edition he responded to his critics by fur
