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Oscar Wilde, Volume 2 (of 2)

CHAPTER XXVII
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The publication of "De Profundis" was delayed for a month in 1905 because I could not decide on what to call it.

It happened to catch on but I do not think it a very good title.
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Do you happen to have compared Douglas' translation of Salome in Lane's First edition (with Beardsley's illustrations) with Lane's Second edition (with Beardsley's illustrations) or Lane's little editions (without Beardsley's illustrations)?
Or have you ever compared the aforesaid First edition with the original?
Douglas' translation omits a great deal of the text and is actually wrong as a rendering of the text in many cases.

I have had this out with a good many people.

I believe Douglas is to this day sublimely unconscious that his text, of which there were never more than 500 copies issued in England, has been entirely scrapped; his name at my instance was removed from the current issues for the very good reason that the new translation is not his.


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