The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
Volume 3: The Picture of Dorian Gray: The 1890 and 1891 Texts
ISBN13: 9780198187721ISBN10: 0198187726
Hardback,
534 pages
Apr 2005,
In Stock
Price:
$250.00 (06)Description
This is the third volume in the Oxford English Texts edition of the works of Oscar Wilde. This definitive variorum edition of Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray reprints the thirteen-chapter and twenty-chapter versions of this famous story as separate works. The volume provides readers with the most detailed account available of the considerable changes that Wilde made to a controversial narrative that appeared in two, very different editions in 1890 and 1891 respectively.Features
- The third volume in the Oxford English Texts edition of the works of Oscar Wilde, the first volume of which was voted academic book of the year by Choice.
- Drawing on manuscripts not previously consulted by scholars, this fully annotated edition includes both the 1890 and 1891 texts.
- Offers a comprehensive commentary on the very broad range of allusions in the story.
About the Author(s)
Edited by Joseph Bristow, Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles
