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View Poll Results: Which books are your picks for the April 2014 MobileRead Book Club selection? | |||
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser | 7 | 20.00% | |
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 10 | 28.57% | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde | 16 | 45.71% | |
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum | 13 | 37.14% | |
The Twelve Chairs by Ilya Ilf and Eugine Petrov | 5 | 14.29% | |
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder | 7 | 20.00% | |
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift | 7 | 20.00% | |
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe | 8 | 22.86% | |
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling | 8 | 22.86% | |
Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas | 10 | 28.57% | |
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04-01-2014, 04:39 PM | #31 |
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I just finished reading 21% of The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, which is to say I read the Preface, The General Introduction, and the Textual Introduction. Now I'm at the point where the Wilde's story actually begins. I don't think I'd have time to read the annotated version, but that's just as well. I couldn't afford the $52.23 for the annotated version.
Even so, I couldn't resist this version, which I just saw and ordered. |
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What kills me is that the Wilde/Frankel uncensored version at Amazon appears to be the exact same book that's selling everywhere else for around 4 times the price. I suspect Amazon miss-priced the book, but who am I to complain?
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When does the discussion commence? (I know if I go read the first post, it's probably there, but where's the fun in that?) |
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Discussions (as well as the next month's nominations) always start on the 20th. |
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So I've finished and will wait until the 20th to have any in-depth discussion, but I'll just comment that it was both better and worse than I expected.
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Interesting comment. I can't wait until the 20th to see how you expand on it.
I'm a little more than half way through. I haven't decided yet whether to read the expanded version when I finish to see how it compares with the uncensored version, but I did get the graphic novel from Marvel and plan to read that by the 20th. I can see why the uncensored version made his American publisher so nervous. What seems tame by today's standards shocked his Victorian contemporaries. The 19th century was not ready for Oscar Wilde. |
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For those who are interested in the 13-chapter version that was published in a magazine in 1890, I have added it to the epub of the Complete Works.
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