The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890 Book)

The Picture of Dorian Gray is a   by  Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890 issue of  Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Penguin_Intro_pg_ix_1-0" style="font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1;font-family:"HelveticaNeue",Helvetica,"NimbusSansL",Arial,"LiberationSans",sans-serif;font-size:0.75em;background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;unicode-bidi:isolate;white-space:nowrap;color:rgb(34,34,34);">[1]  Fearing the story was indecent, the magazine's editor without Wilde's knowledge deleted roughly five hundred words before publication. Despite that censorship,  The Picture of Dorian Gray offended the moral sensibilities of British book reviewers, some of whom said that Oscar Wilde merited prosecution for violating the laws guarding the public morality. In response, Wilde aggressively defended his novel and art in correspondence with the British press, although he personally made excisions of some of the most controversial material when revising and lengthening the story for book publication the following year.