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Which version of Dorian Gray should I read? The Harvard version is apparently "uncensored" but also shorter. Penguin claims the "censored" version without all the faggotry is better; kind of based if I say so myself.

>> No.19884229

That's a dude, compare nose to jaw and eye distance from each other.

>> No.19884233

>>19884229
That is a beautiful boy. I will paint him.

>> No.19884270

>>19884221
Is Harvard's version is the only "uncensored" version available so far? Wasn't it published before? Because I thought to go with the Ward Lock's edition, and I don't know if it's censored. Help me, bros.

>> No.19884328

>>19884270
The Harvard is the first and only uncensored version as far as I know, which is kind of weird considering it was published fairly recently.

>> No.19884410

>>19884229
yeah no shit retard why wouldnt it be one why would you feel the need to point that out

>> No.19884454

Alma classics

>> No.19884460

>>19884454
why

>> No.19886183

>>19884229
Yeah? What's your point?

>> No.19886542
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19886542

The book is severly overrated.

>> No.19886610

>>19886542
dude

>> No.19886617

>>19886542
why are you posting this shit, come on dude

>> No.19886636

>>19886542
Perfection

>> No.19886646

>>19884221
Read both. If you have time to make threads on 4channel.org, you have time to read Dorian Gray at least twice.

>> No.19888091
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19888091

>>19886542
sauce?

>> No.19888176

>>19888091
Looks like Weird Science. It's about a tranny who learns he isn't degenerate by befriending a closeted gay nerd.

>> No.19888287

>>19888176
thanks, sweet anon!

>> No.19889498

>>19886646
Which one should I read first?

>> No.19889582

>>19884270
What the shit, are modern editions of the novel censored? Fucking faggots, I have an Easton Press and Wordsworth and I had idea they were censored.

>> No.19889597

>>19884221
back to r/books newfag

>> No.19889629
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19889629

What are the differences between censored / uncensored?
And why the fuck is it never mentioned anywhere (neither on the cover nor on the descriptions inside)? Notice how it's far more unethical than whatever gay stuff that was removed in the first place.

>> No.19889638

>>19889629
I fed myself, now I'll feed you faggots, here is the spoon:
https://lithub.com/a-close-reading-of-the-originally-censored-passages-of-the-picture-of-dorian-gray/
The original is mild still, and what was removed are things like walking arm-in-arm and "I give myself away".

>> No.19889663

>>19889582
Not only modern but it was also censored for the first edition. Then came up a bit expanded Ward Lock's edition but it was censored too. So Harvard's is the first edition that is fully uncensored and it was published only in 2011.

>> No.19889811

>>19889582
OP: From what I have gathered, it is not censored per se. It is an expanded version written by Wilde himself where he tames the faggotry down, but expands the characters a lot more. Harvard is still preferred since it is the newest and has most annotations, but if you have to read one version excluding all the annotations the expanded version is probably the best, so you are not losing out much (unless you have read the strictly censored non-expanded version).

>> No.19889816

>>19889597
No.

>> No.19890440

>>19889582