Oscar Wilde

Nicholas Frankel

Over 120 years after Oscar Wilde submitted The Picture of Dorian Gray for publication, the uncensored version of his novel appears here for the first time in a paperback edition. This volume restores material, including instances of graphic homosexual content, removed by the novel’s first editor, who feared it would be “offensive” to Victorians.

The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray

Cici Pearson

Madeleine 

"Just turn your head a little more to the right, Dorian, like a good boy;" said Hallward, deep in his work, and conscious only that a look had come into the lad's face that he had never seen there before.

"Ah, my dear Basil, that is exactly why I can feel it. Those who are faithful know only the pleasures of love; it is the faithless who know love’s tragedies."

Victoria

He felt that Dorian Gray would never again be to him all that he had been in the past

The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about

The reason I will not exhibit this picture is that I am afraid that I have shown with it the secret of my own soul.

every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.

I knew that if I spoke to Dorian I would become absolutely devoted to him

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