More than 120 years after Oscar Wilde submitted The Picture of Dorian Gray for publication in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, the uncensored version of his novel appears here for the first time in a paperback edition. This volume restores all of the material removed by the novel's first editor. Upon[...]
The truth is rarely pure and never simple, declares Algernon early in Act One of "The Importance of Being Earnest," and were it either, modern literature would be a complete impossibility. It is a moment of sly, winking self-regard on the part of the playwright, for "The Importance" is itself the so[...]