The editor feared the story was indecent, without Wilde, deleted roughly 500 words before publication.
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Fearing the story was indecent, the magazine's editor deleted roughly five hundred words before publication without Wilde's knowledge.
The tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused a scandal when it first appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel's corrupting influence, he responded that there is, in fact, "a terrible moral in Dorian Gray.
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The tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused a scandal when it first appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel's corrupting influence, he responded that there is, in fact, "a terrible moral in Dorian Gray.
This volume restores all of the material removed by the novel’s first editor. Upon receipt of the typescript, Wilde’s editor panicked at what he saw.
A young man's quest for eternal youth and beauty ends in scandal and depravity.
The magazine's editor feared the story was indecent, and without Wilde's knowledge, deleted roughly five hundred words before publication.
Shocking in its suggestion of unspeakable sin, this novel was later used as evidence against Wilde when he was tried for indecency in 1895.