{"product_id":"the-picture-of-dorian-gray-an-annotated-uncensored-edition","title":"The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition","description":"\n        \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0674057929\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Wilde, Oscar\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e new\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThe Picture of Dorian Gray altered the way Victorians understood the world they inhabited. It heralded the end of a repressive Victorianism, and after its publication, literature had-in the words of biographer Richard Ellmann-\";a different look.\"; Yet the Dorian Gray that Victorians never knew was even more daring than the novel the British press condemned as \";vulgar,\"; \";unclean,\"; \";poisonous,\"; \";discreditable,\"; and \";a sham.\"; Now, more than 120 years after Wilde handed it over to his publisher, J. B. Lippincott \u0026amp; Company, Wilde?s uncensored typescript is published for the first time, in an annotated, extensively illustrated edition.The novel?s first editor, J. M. Stoddart, excised material-especially homosexual content-he thought would offend his readers? sensibilities. When Wilde enlarged the novel for the 1891 edition, he responded to his critics by fur\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eUsed Book in Good Condition\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n        ","brand":"Miakarts Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49680410444016,"sku":"NEW0674057929","price":48.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/ethereallybeautiful.com\/products\/the-picture-of-dorian-gray-an-annotated-uncensored-edition","provider":"Ethereally Beautiful","version":"1.0","type":"link"}