This is the first variorum edition of the 1890 and 1891 editions of Oscar Wilde's controversial novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. Drawing on manuscripts and a typescript, this volume reprints the thirteen-chapter and twenty-chapter versions of Wilde's narrative as separate works, enabling the reader to see the considerable changes that Wilde made to his famous story across a period of eighteen months.

This variorum edition contains a comprehensive introduction that provides full bibliographical information about the two editions, as well as a detailed commentary that illuminates the extraordinarily wide range of references that Wilde makes to a broad repertoire of sources.

This volume will be the definitive edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray for many years to come.