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The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde.(The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray the 1890 and 1891 Texts, vol. 3)(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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From: Contemporary Review
Date: 20050801
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The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde. Volume 3: The Picture of Dorian Gray The 1890 and 1891 Texts. Joseph Bristow, editor. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]90.000. lxxvii + 465 pages. ISBN 0-19-818772-6. In this third volume the editor has had a somewhat easier task: Wilde published his thirteen chapter story in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine and in 1891 he expanded it to twenty chapters which he published as a complete book. This edition of both works is based on surviving manuscripts, typescripts, annotated sheets from unbound off-prints and printed ...

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