Reddit reviews Portrait of Dorian Gray: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (Reader's Choice Edition)

Yeah, apparently it's the "reader's choice addition", whatever that means. It's like the publisher was annoyed by the ME so they decided to change the name back to what they remembered or something. Amazon

That looks like the one I linked in another thread: https://www.amazon.com/Portrait-Dorian-Gray-Picture-Readers/dp/1450541712

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It seems to have both titles in the amazon listing.

There's [this book.] (http://www.amazon.com/Portrait-Dorian-Gray-Picture-Readers/dp/1450541712) I don't know if that helps much.

Well, it looks like it is indeed a self-published book, though not necessarily by the author of this post.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Portrait-Dorian-Gray-Picture-Readers/dp/1450541712/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1501858851&sr=8-7&keywords=portrait+of+dorian+gray

Paperback: 228 pages
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform; Reprint edition (3 Feb. 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1450541712
ISBN-13: 978-1450541718
Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 1.3 x 25.4 cm

Some residue:

https://www.amazon.com/Portrait-Dorian-Gray-Picture-Readers/dp/1450541712
"The Portrait of Dorian Gray was first published in 1890 by Oscar Wilde."

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/portrait-of-dorian-gray-oscar-wilde/1008429782

https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-portrait-of-dorian-gray/oscar-wilde/9788124200742

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Trials-Oscar-Wilde-Portrait-Dorian/dp/1904605621

http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/wilde/jaffe2.html

http://ia-zak-blog.blogspot.fi/2011/09/portrait-of-dorian-gray-chapter-8-james.html

https://www.kibin.com/essay-examples/tag/the-portrait-of-dorian-gray

http://www.grin.com/en/e-book/282425/the-portrait-of-dorian-gray-from-an-aesthetic-to-a-moral-value

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Portrait-of-Dorian-Gray-The-Picture-of-Dorian-Gray-by-Oscar-Wilde-Readers-/351708945510

On the misspell. Yes I picked but I could find no way to edit in here. Was really in a state of shock on finding picture instead of portrait.
I was doing a post on a completely different thing...... Fav old movies when I came across it.
SunsetGrr posted a link to the Amazon book
http://www.amazon.com/Portrait-Dorian-Gray-Picture-Readers/dp/1450541712
You will see in the title on the side it has both picture and portrait.
The picture of the book has only portrait. And in the description of it has portrait.
I know UK, Ireland well. Not even today would you call a painting a picture. Try googling it. A painting is always a panting. It might be a panting of a landscape, an interior etc.
A painting of someone is always referred as a portrait. Whether that be a panting or a professional photograph portrait. Thought the latter in more modern times often will be referred to others as a picture.
Just as an example in the Victorian era when Dorian Gray was written a photograph was referred to as a Portriat. Here is one example https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-mortem_photography
Which mentions portraiture of a photograph and a painted portrait.
I also went to art school and do paint portraits. When I tell people I paint they will often ask what I do, portraits, still life's or landscape.

I didn't know this was an ME, but Amazon has both listed, and a 3rd:

https://www.amazon.com/Picture-Dorian-Dover-Thrift-Editions/dp/0486278077/
https://www.amazon.com/Portrait-Dorian-Gray-Picture-Readers/dp/1450541712/
https://www.amazon.com/Portrait-Dorian-Gray-Oscar-Wilde/dp/1468012541/

So one just "picture" one is "The Portrait" and one is "a Picture".

But I am unclear on what this ME is claiming as both versions exist, did only one exist before?

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/p/portrait-of-dorian-gray-oscar-wilde/1008429782/2661810303040?st=PLA&sid=BNB_ADL+Marketplace+Good+Used+Books+-+Desktop+Low&sourceId=PLAGoNA&dpid=tdtve346c&2sid=Google_c&gclid=Cj0KCQjwiILsBRCGARIsAHKQWLM3b-RH2JCuGXv0Qpm3meLfRa4EQi6mFmtKQEnvDyXlrmZzFNfiJjwaAkxJEALw_wcB


https://www.amazon.com/Portrait-Dorian-Gray-Picture-Readers/dp/1450541712/ref=sr_1_6?keywords=portrait+of+dorian&qid=1569323531&sr=8-6


I actually have the book and think it changed the name - like interview with a vampire - I even asked one of the moderators of a local horror club about the vampire thing (for this one I am sure too it changed, because I bought some anthologies that had this book title as recommended other books by the same publishers on some of the back pages).

It is Portrait of Dorian Gray, on amazon :
https://www.amazon.com/Portrait-Dorian-Gray-Picture-Readers/dp/1450541712?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0

I'm sure having read Old Yeller I wouldn't think the dog's name was Yellow even though that's obviously what the dog's name was, without the dialect.

And if "picture" were the correct word, "portrait" shouldn't show up anywhere.

https://www.amazon.com/Portrait-Dorian-Gray-Picture-Readers/dp/1450541712/ref=pd_sbs_14_3?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1450541712&pd_rd_r=K4HMBHYKGZ3Z2W7P9B2X&pd_rd_w=NkAjW&pd_rd_wg=KRfsj&psc=1&refRID=K4HMBHYKGZ3Z2W7P9B2X

And in this video, go to 2:45...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNzdj5tS4kg

This book exists. With this title. Not just in my memory.