04-28-2011, 10:55 AM | #1 |
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Uncensored Dorian Gray
The original, uncensored Dorian Gray has been published. Supposedly, the original was more racy and "homoerotic".
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cool. thanks for the link.
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04-28-2011, 11:19 AM | #3 |
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Interesting. D.H. Lawrence also has different versions of one of his books (Lady Chatterly's Lover) and Wilde predates him by quite a margin. Makes you wonder though if Dorian Gray will be considered back under copyright or not since it's a previously unpublished version of the book.
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Director's cut!
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it does indeed. it's actually up in the book of the club month vote for next months read, although it has a long way to go to catch up to 1984 and anna karenin. after someone nominated it i read some descriptions and does sound somewhat interesting. now that this 'directors cut' version is out i wouldn't mind reading that one instead of what is available but only if it stays in public domain. if they give it a new copyright i guess i won't be purchasing it knowing it's already free.
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awesome! I think I'll wait for the performance though.
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Cool. I think this will turn out to be the real benefit in ebooks - the ability to release director's cuts, manuscripts, etc. without having to go throughthe huge publishing gauntlet.
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Here's a link at B&N to the hardcover being released tomorrow (and so available for purchase now).
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The...RI=dorian+gray ETA: Strange, the search results page showed a pub date of tomorrow, but it was released on the 11th on Amazon. Apparently B&N uses "publication date" differently than I do. ETA again: Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/067...kinw_rke_rti_1 Last edited by CWatkinsNash; 04-28-2011 at 01:59 PM. Reason: Update info |
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While the annotations will be copyrighted, the original uncensored text itself has long since passed into the public domain. I hope someone OCRs it and uploads to Gutenberg for us.
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EDIT: and here is the (very raw) OCR output in rtf format Last edited by paola; 04-28-2011 at 03:15 PM. Reason: file added |
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That looks to be the original PUBLISHED version, which is still cut down from the completely uncensored version Wilde originally wrote that's just been released. |
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sorry Jack, now I get you - so is the one I put up is intermediate between the "fully censored" and "fully uncensored"? or perhaps the Guardian article is not too precise...
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