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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
I just finished The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray, and what a Wilde trip it was. This version was not released to the reading public until 2011. There have been 3 versions of this work. The first was heavily censored by the publisher, but even so, enough remained that eventually Oscar Wilde was convicted to two years hard labor, based largely upon evidence found in that 1890 version, for sodomy and gross indecency. The 1891 version, which is what most people know, was expanded to 20 chapters and toned down considerable. The uncensored version was finally published in 2011 by Harvard University Press under its Belknap Press imprint and contains Wilde's original work, with nothing removed.
If anyone's interested, the MobileRead Book Club will be discussing The Picture of Dorian Gray (reader's choice which version to read) starting on the 20th of April. |
Man, am I ever going to be ready for this discussion. I just finished the
Marvel Illustrated graphic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde as adapted by Roy Thomas & Sebastian Fiumara. This was obviously based on the expanded version of 1891, and it was, hands down, the best adaptation of a novel to graphic novel that I've ever seen. It certainly was far better and truer to Oscar Wilde's vision than the two movies I've seen in preparation for this discussion (
The picture of Dorian Gray [1945] and
Dorian Gray [2009]). I highly recommend this Marvel Masterpiece.