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In the 1891 version Wilde added a Preface (as well as 6 chapters) to respond to the critics.

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The Lippincott’s version was used by opposing counsel in evidence against Wilde in two of his trials in an attempt to show him guilty of ‘a certain tendency’

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Wilde considerably amended the text and a longer, noticeably ‘toned-down’ version of the book was published by Ward Lock and Co in April 1891

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outcry due to its perceived references of homosexual desire

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The first edition of this gothic novel appeared in the summer of 1890 in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine. It was criticized as scandalous and immoral.