FPG (Greve/Grove)'s Translations:

Oscar Wilde


F. P. Greve's Oscar Wilde Translations:
Das Bildnis Dorian Grays, 1902/3

Greve Portrait, 1902
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Author: Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.

Title: Das Bildnis Dorian Grays / Oscar Wilde ; Deutsch von Felix Paul Greve. --

Published: Minden in Westf. : J.C.C. Bruns' Verlag, [ca. 1902/3]

Description: 367 p.

Note: Felix Paul Greve's translation of Oscar Wilde's only novel The picture of Dorian Gray, orig. publ. serially in 1890 in "Lippincott's monthly magazine". --

Cover title: Dorian Gray's Bildnis; spine title: Dorian Gray

This is the orig. 1902/3 ed. with the title: Das Bildnis Dorian Grays -- it is relatively rare, whereas the "2. Ausgabe" a year or so later, Dorian Grays Bildnis, appears in many printings well into the 1920s.

A recent antiquarians' site search listed 14 of the latter, & only one of the former. --

The UM Libraries also own a ca. 1908 printing of the more common 2nd ed. of Greve's German text ("13. bis 15. Tausend").

Other Author(s):
Greve, Felix Paul, 1879-1909.



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