Picture of Dorian Gray

[beehammer]

I laid hands on a copy of the uncensored 13-chapter version of the novella, and it's amazing how many small things were edited out--either by Wilde himself after legal trouble made him more sensitive to the risk posed by being too open about his sexuality, or by his publishers--while the 20-chapter book version not only got a lot more of Lord Henry being a moral vampire but that whole subplot about the Vanes being bastards.

Also? Given the narrative prominence and description of the fake novel that finally throws Dorian into a complete disarray, and the numerous suspects, I can only imagine how many letters Wilde got that just read, "What's the real book, Oscar?  Asking for a friend."