Wilde Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray.
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English.It’s a story as famous and as sensational as its author: a young man so enchanted with the idea of preserving his own beauty that it brings about his destruction. Denounced at its first printing as a moral abomination, Oscar Wilde’s masterpiece, The Picture of Dorian Gray, was pruned and revised by its author to appease the moralists of the Victorian age. Editor Nicholas Frankel has taken up Wilde’s only novel like an art restorer to a tarnished painting, peeling back the layers to discover the raw beauty of the original portrait.
Of all the material excised from the manuscript, the themes of homosexuality are the most obvious restoration in the text. To the modern reader, homoeroticism isn’t nearly as offensive as it was to the Victorians, whose judgment kept Wilde from publishing Dorian Gray in its entirety. Alongside the novel’s text are the annotations, which provide the reader with valuable insight into the world through which Wilde strutted with his aesthetic grace.