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Review Nicholas Frankel has done a great service to Oscar Wilde's readers in preparing this new edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray . His introduction and annotations deepen our understanding not only of Wilde the writer but of the political and sexual milieu in which he lived and published. This is the kind of scholarship that reminds us why scholarship matters. --David Leavitt (20110331) Frankel's extensive annotations reveal that the homoerotic qualities of the novel are deeply encoded within it and cannot be excised by the removal of a few phrases...If the restored text is interesting primarily as a social document of what was and was not permissible in England in the 1890s, it poignantly reveals an author desperately at war with his society and with himself. --Ruth Franklin (_New Republic online_ 20110404) In pages redolent of fin-de-siecle languor and sparkling with bons mots, Wilde's only novel raises several seriously troubling questions: If one could live a life of absolute freedom, would the result be happiness or a nightmare? How much of our complex selves do we deny or sacrifice to conventional morality? ...This Harvard edition of the untouched typescript is thus a

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Author

Oscar Wilde

Publisher

Random House: Modern Library

Published

1910

Language

EN

ISBN

9781509827831

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, History

Rating

4.06 / 5 (225 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13