Short shock
Sep. 5th, 2004 02:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tilly_stratfordFor the sake of everything that is HOLY in literature! How naïve I've been!
As a sort of continuation from all I've written about The picture of Dorian Gray - let me say I finished the book about half a minute ago. And was shocked.
When I got to the lettering that said THE END, it finally dawned on me: This wasn't the same story.
As I read it, I kept trying to remember the details of the story as I had read it three years ago - and when I shut it, it dawned on me: Sibyl Vane's brother wasn't in this one. He was majorly important in the book I read three years ago - but he wasn't even mentioned in this one.
You know, when I got it, I was slightly disappointed over how thin the book looked, and now I've discovered it misses several chapters... I'm a bit embarassed I didn't find the conclusion until I had read the book: The story was first published in Lippincott's Magazine in 1890 - the story was such a major success Oscar Wilde rewrote it, changed it, added subplots and gave it out in bookform.
It's the original Magazine version I own! Wow, I never knew! No wonder it didn't have the Preface, because that was written for the book! In fact, I didn't think the Magazine edition was available any longer. But hey, I got an 1907 edition, it might have been available then.
Well, you know what that mean - I have to buy the book version and read that through too, and find the differences! The Magazine edition had a sort of rushed ending - I remember when I read it three years ago, I got this weird feeling somebody that had never made sense before did - whereas this edition just gave me a little chill.
Let me see; Another book for my 'Books I plan to read' list, then...
As a sort of continuation from all I've written about The picture of Dorian Gray - let me say I finished the book about half a minute ago. And was shocked.
When I got to the lettering that said THE END, it finally dawned on me: This wasn't the same story.
As I read it, I kept trying to remember the details of the story as I had read it three years ago - and when I shut it, it dawned on me: Sibyl Vane's brother wasn't in this one. He was majorly important in the book I read three years ago - but he wasn't even mentioned in this one.
You know, when I got it, I was slightly disappointed over how thin the book looked, and now I've discovered it misses several chapters... I'm a bit embarassed I didn't find the conclusion until I had read the book: The story was first published in Lippincott's Magazine in 1890 - the story was such a major success Oscar Wilde rewrote it, changed it, added subplots and gave it out in bookform.
It's the original Magazine version I own! Wow, I never knew! No wonder it didn't have the Preface, because that was written for the book! In fact, I didn't think the Magazine edition was available any longer. But hey, I got an 1907 edition, it might have been available then.
Well, you know what that mean - I have to buy the book version and read that through too, and find the differences! The Magazine edition had a sort of rushed ending - I remember when I read it three years ago, I got this weird feeling somebody that had never made sense before did - whereas this edition just gave me a little chill.
Let me see; Another book for my 'Books I plan to read' list, then...
