Notes

1890:

Chapter VII.

1. 1890 "used to come down to my studio, day after day, to sit for his picture."; 1891: "day after day, used to come down to my studio to sit for his picture."
2. 1890 “know”; 1891 “paint”
3. 1890 “school-boy”; 1891 “schoolboy”
4. 1890 “Hallward”; 1891 “The painter”
5. 1891 omits “Rugged and straightforward as he was, there was something in his nature that was purely feminine in its tenderness.”
6. 1890 “her”; 1891 “Sibyl”
7. 1890 “will”;1891 “can”
8. 1890 “painted”; 1891 “done”
9. 1890 “horrid”; 1891 “disgraceful”
10. 1890 “Impossible, my dear fellow!”; 1890 “Surely not, my dear fellow?”
11. 1890 uses “absolutely”; 1891 uses “actually”
12. 1890 “said”; 1891 “cried.”
13. 1890 “interesting”; 1891 “strange.”
14. 1890 “murmured”; 1891 “insisted”
15. 1890 “pale and pained”; 1891 “troubled.”
16. 1891 omits “I will sit . . . are like that.”
17. 1890 “that you did not like”; 1891 “curious”
18. 1891 omits “It is quite true . . . in a country.”
19. 1890 “Well”; 1891 “Dorian”
20. 1890 “I quite admit that I adored you madly, extravagantly, absurdly.”; 1891 “I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you.”
21. 1890 “I was jealous”; 1891 “I grew jealous”
22. 1891 omits “It was all wrong and foolish. It is all wrong and foolish still.” But replaces it with an ellipses.
23. 1890 separates this sentence and the prior one with only a semicolon, and says “I did not understand it myself,” whereas the 1891 makes them two separate sentences and uses “I hardly understood it myself.”
24. 1891 omits “It was to have been my masterpiece. It is my masterpiece.”
25. 1890 “must not”; 1891 “cannot”
26. 1890 “young man”; 1891 “the painter”
27. 1890 “Lord Harry”; 1891 “Lord Henry”
28. 1890 “Of course I did.”; 1891 “‘I saw something in it,’ he answered, ‘something that seemed to me very curious.’”
29. 1890 “looking at it”; 1891 “looking at the thing”
30. 1890 “good-by”; 1891 “goodbye”
31. 1890 “of whom I have been really fond”; 1891 “who has really influenced my art.”
32. 1891 omits “I don’t suppose I shall often see you again.”
33. 1890 “liked”; 1891 “admired”
34. 1890 “A very disappointing one.”; 1891 “It was a very disappointing confession.”
35. 1890 “not meeting me again, or anything of that kind.”; 1891 “about worship. It is foolish.”

1891:

Chapter IX.

1.1891 adds "I may mention . . . sailor, or something."
2. 1890 "used to come down to my studio, day after day, to sit for his picture."; 1891: "day after day, used to come down to my studio to sit for his picture."
3. 1890 omits “sun-lashed.”
4. 1890 uses “know” instead of “paints,” and omits “said the artist sadly.”
5. 1891 added “The elder man . . . fearful about it.”
6. 1890 has this sentence and the following as one, where here it was split, probably for affect.
7. 1890 omits “you told me . . . together”
8. 1890 “school-boy”; 1891 “schoolboy”
9. 1890 “Hallward”; 1891 “The painter”
10. 1890 “her”; 1891 “Sibyl."
11. 1890 “will”; 1891 “can.”
12. 1890 “painted”; 1891 “done”
13. 1890 “horrid”; 1891 “disgraceful”
14. 1890 “impossible!”; 1891 “Surely not?”
15. 1890 “absolutely”; 1891 “actually”
16. 1890 “said”; 1891 “cried.”
17. 1890 omits “have.”
18. 1890 “interesting”; 1891 “strange.”
19. 1890 “murmured”; 1891 “insisted”
20. 1890 “pale and pained”; 1891 “troubled”
21. 1890 “something that you did not like”; 1891 “something curious”
22. 1890 “Well”; 1891 “Dorian”
23. 1890 “I quite admit that I adored you madly, extravagantly, absurdly.”; 1891 “I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you.”
24. 1890 omits: “You became to me . . . I worshipped you.”
25. 1890 “I was jealous”; 1891 “I grew jealous”
26. 1890: “It was all wrong and foolish. It is all wrong and foolish still.”; 1891: “. . .” Instead of omitting the original line silently in the 1891 edition, it is replaced by an ellipses.
27. 1890 separates this sentence and the prior one with only a semicolon, and says “I did not understand it myself,” whereas the 1891 makes them two separate sentences and uses “I hardly understood it myself.”
28. Paris is "the son of Priam, king of Troy, appears in a number of Greek legends. Probably the best-known was his elopement with Helen, queen of Sparta, this being one of the immediate causes of the Trojan War." (More Info)
29. Adonis "in Greek mythology, is the god of beauty and desire, and is a central figure in various mystery religions. . . . His name is often applied in modern times to handsome youths, of whom he is the archetype." (More Info)
30. Adrian is an emperor, said to have loved Antinous, who fell off Adrian's barge into the Nile and died. (For more info, see pg 373-74 of Volume 3 of The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde)
31. This line refers to Narcissus, who "was renowned for his beauty. . . . Nemesis noticed and attracted Narcissus to a pool, wherein he saw his reflection and fell in love with it, not realizing it was merely an image. Unable to leave the beauty of his reflection, Narcissus died. Narcissus is the origin of the term narcissism, a fixation with oneself." (More Info)
32. 1890 omits “I only knew that I had seen perfection face to face . . . One day, a fatal day I sometimes think.”
33. 1890 omits “as you actually are . . . I cannot tell.”
34. 1890 omits “that I had put too much of myself into it”
35. 1891 adds the ellipses, but nothing was omitted from the 1890 text.
36. 1891 adds “always”
37. 1890 “must not”; 1891 “cannot”
38. 1890 "young man"; 1891 "the painter"
39. 1890 splits this sentence in two here.
40. 1890 “Lord Harry”; 1891 “Lord Henry”
41. 1890 “Of course I did.”; 1891 “‘I saw something in it,’ he answered, ‘something that seemed to me very curious.’”
42. 1890 “looking at it”; 1891 “looking at the thing”
43. 1890 “good-by”; 1891 “goodbye”
44. 1890 “of whom I have been really fond.”; 1891 “who has really influenced my art”
45. 1890 omits “Whatever I have done that is good, I owe to you. Ah!”
46. 1890 “liked”; 1891 “admired”
47. 1890 omits “Now that I have made it . . . worship into words”
48. 1890 “A very disappointing one.”; 1891 “It was a very disappointing confession.”
49. 1890 “not meeting me again, or anything of that kind.”; 1891 “about worship. It is foolish.”
50. 1890 “But you won’t sit to me again?”; 1891 “You will sit to me again?”
51. 1891 adds “There is something fatal about a portrait. It has a life of its own.”
52. 1891 adds an e to 1890’s “good-by”
53. 1890 omits “allowed”
54. 1890 omits “to”

Chapter XIII.

1.1890 “no good”; 1891 “no use”
2. 1891 omits “Dorian”
3. 1890 “murmured”; 1891 “echoed”
4. 1890 “to me curious”; 1891 “terrible to me”
5. 1890 “idyl”; 1891 “idyll”
6. Perdita is "one of the heroines of William Shakespeare's play The Winter's Tale." (More Info)
7. Florizel is Perdita's lover in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. (More Info)
8. 1890 “curious”; 1891 “curiously”
9. 1890 “having met you”; 1891 “the fact of having met you”
10. 1890 “I really don’t”; 1891 “I cannot say that I”
11. Ophelia is from Shakespeare's play Hamlet. She kills herself because Hamlet goes crazy, kills her father, and starts verbally abusing her. (More Info)
12. 1890 “in”; 1891 “for”
13. 1890 “left Victoria”; 1891 “left for Paris”
14. 1890 “7th”; 1891 “ninth.” I found this to be one of the most interesting changes, because it seems so arbitrary and confusing. None of the texts I have access to annotated this change, however, and I could not find any reasons in my research for why Wilde might have felt the need to make this change. Perhaps a mistake?
16. 1890 “had no enemies”; 1891 “was very popular”
17. A Waterbury watch is " inexpensive pocketwatch made of 58 parts, mostly made of punched sheet brass." (More Info)
18. 1890 “be murdered”; 1891 “have been murdered”
19. 1890 “with a sad look in his eyes”; 1891 “with a note of sadness in his voice.”
20. 1890 “The only people whose opinions I listen to”; 1891 “The only people to whose opinions I listen”
21. 1890 “last”; 1891 “latest”
22. Apollo is "one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology. The ideal of the kouros (a beardless, athletic youth)." (More Info)
23. Marsyas is a satyr and "is a central figure in two stories involving death: in one, he picked up the double flute (aulos) that had been abandoned by Athena and played it;[1] in the other, he challenged Apollo to a contest of music and lost his hide and life. In Antiquity, literary sources often emphasise the hubris of Marsyas and the justice of his punishment." (More Info)
24. 1890 “strange”; 1891 “subtle”
25. 1890 “heliotrope”; 1891 “lilas blanc.” Lilas blanc means "white lilac" in French.
26. 1890 “year”; 1891 “month”
27. 1890 “have been”; 1891 “are”
28. 1890 “play”; 1891 “give me”
29. 1890 “at the club”; 1891 “at White’s” (See Ch XIX. note 46)
30. 1890 “Bournmouth’s”; 1891 “Bournemouth’s”
31. 1890 “with a touch of pathos in his voice”; 1891 “with a sad look in his eyes”
32. 1891 inserts a chapter break here.
33. 1890 “made”; 1891 “lured to”
34. 1890 “told him”; 1891 “answered”
35. 1890 “unless”; 1891 “save”
36. 1890 “who would believe him, even if he did confess?”; 1891 “even if he did confess, who would believe him?”
37. 1890 breaks paragraph, 1891 adds an ellipses.
38. 1890 “and”; 1891 “but”
39. 1890 “never to get rid of the past?”; 1891 “always to be burdened by his past?”
40. 1890 “No”; 1891 “Never.”
41. 1890 “It had given him pleasure once”; 1891 “Once it had given him pleasure”
42. 1890 “it”; 1891 “the thing”
43. 1890 “canvas”; 1891 “picture”
44. 1891 omits “ripping the thing right up from top to bottom.”
45. 1890 “The house was all dark, except for a light in one of the top windows.”; 1891 “Except for a light in one of the top windows, the house was all dark.”
46. 1890 “the portico of the next house”; 1891 “an adjoining portico.” A portico is "a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls." (More Info)
Chapter XIX.

1. 1890 “no good”; 1891 “no use”
2. 1890 omits “absolutely”
3. 1890 omits “Civilization is not by any means an easy things to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it.”
4. 1890 “murmured”; 1891 “echoed”
5. 1890 “to me curious”; 1891 “terrible to me”
6. 1891 adds “asked his companion . . . sugar upon them.”
7. 1890 “idyl”; 1891 “idyll”
8. Perdita is Perdita is "one of the heroines of William Shakespeare's play The Winter's Tale." (More Info)
9. 1890 added “of mint and marigold”
10. Florizel is Perdita's lover in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. (More Info)
11. 1890 omits “as he leant back in his chair”
12. 1890 “curious”; 1891 “curiously”
13. 1890 “having met you”; 1891 “the fact of having met you”
14. 1890 1890 “I really don’t”; 1891 “I cannot say that I”
15. 1891 adds “star-lit”
16. 1891 adds “lovely”
17. Ophelia is from Shakespeare's play Hamlet. She kills herself because Hamlet goes crazy, kills her father, and starts verbally abusing her. (More Info)
18. 1890 “in”; 1891 “for”
19. 1891 adds “British”
20. 1890 “left Victoria”; 1891 “left for Paris”
21. 1890 “7th”; 1891 “ninth.” I found this to be one of the most interesting changes, because it seems so arbitrary and confusing. None of the texts I have access to annotated this change, however, and I could not find any reasons in my research for why Wilde might have felt the need to make this change. Perhaps a mistake?
22. Dorian does not interrupt in 1890.
23. 1891 adds “Because,” said Lord Henry, passing beneath his nostrils the gilt trellis of an open vinaigrette box.” Also, what is a “vinaigrette box.”
24. 1891 adds “Of course, married life . . . part of one’s personality.”
25. 1891 adds “the white and black ivory of”
26. 1890 “had no enemies”; 1891 “was very popular”
27. A Waterbury watch is " inexpensive pocketwatch made of 58 parts, mostly made of punched sheet brass." (More Info)
28. 1890 “be murdered”; 1891 “have been murdered”
29. 1891 adds “and that you were the dominant motive of his art”
30. 1890 “with a sad look in his eyes”; 1891 “with a note of sadness in his voice.”
32. 1891 added a long section: “What would you say, Harry, if I told you that I had murdered Basil? . . . we have given up our belief in the soul. Play me something.”
33. “The only people whose opinions I listen to”; 1891 “The only people to whose opinions I listen”
34. 1890 “last”; 1891 “latest”
35. Apollo is "one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology. The ideal of the kouros (a beardless, athletic youth)." (More Info)
36. Marsyas is a satyr and "is a central figure in two stories involving death: in one, he picked up the double flute (aulos) that had been abandoned by Athena and played it;[1] in the other, he challenged Apollo to a contest of music and lost his hide and life. In Antiquity, literary sources often emphasise the hubris of Marsyas and the justice of his punishment." (More Info)
37. Dorian doesn’t interrupt in 1890.
38. 1891 adds “Yes: you are the same.”
39. 1890 “strange”; 1891 “subtle”
40. 1890 “heliotrope”; 1891 “lilas blanc.” Lilas blanc means "white lilac" in French.
41. 1890 “year”; 1891 “month”
42. 1890 breaks here to a new paragraph.
43. 1890 “have been”; 1891 “are”
44. 1890 1890 “play”; 1891 “give me”
45. 1890 “at the club”; 1891 “at White’s” (can you find out what White’s is?)
46. 1890 “Bournmouth’s”; 1891 “Bournemouth’s”
47. “with a touch of pathos in his voice”; 1891 “with a sad look in his eyes”
48. 1890 “‘Don’t change, Dorian; at any rate, don’t change to me. We must always be friends.’”; 1891 “‘You cannot change to me, Dorian,’” said Lord Henry. “‘You and I will always be friends.’”
49. 1891 adds “like the converted, and the revivalist”
50. 1891 adds “As for being . . . we won’t discuss literature.”
51. 1891 adds “and I will take you . . . Certainly.”
52. 1891 splits the chapter here, where 1890 does not.

Chapter XX.

1. 1890 “made”; 1891 “lured to”
2. 1890 “told him”; 1891 “answered”
3. 1891 adds “Ah! in what a monstrous moment . . . Youth had spoiled him.”
4. 1891 adds “James Vane was hidden in a nameless grave in Selby churchyard”
5. 1890 “unless”; 1891 “save”
6. 1891 adds “Then he trembled,” and does not split the paragraph as 1890 did.
7. 1891 adds “And,” and continues the paragraph, instead of breaking it.
8. 1891 does not break the paragraph here, 1890 does.
9. 1890 “who would believe him, even if he did confess?”; 1891 “even if he did confess, who would believe him?”
10. 1891 adds “that”
11. 1890 breaks paragraph, 1891 adds an ellipses.
12. 1891 adds “For” and does not break the paragraph.
13. 1891 adds an ellipses and “No. There had . . . recognized that now.”
14. 1890 “and”; 1891 “but”
15. 1890 “never to get rid of the past?”; 1891 “always to be burdened by his past?”
16. 1890 “No”; 1891 “Never.”
17. 1891 does not break the paragraph as in 1890.
18. 1890 “It had given him pleasure once”; 1891 “Once it had given him pleasure”
19. 1890 “it”; 1891 “the thing”
20. 1890 “canvas”; 1891 “picture”
22. 1890 “The house was all dark, except for a light in one of the top windows.”; 1891 “Except for a light in one of the top windows, the house was all dark.”
23. 1890 “the portico of the next house”; 1891 “an adjoining portico” A portico is "a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls." (More Info)

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