FPG (Greve/Grove)'s Translations:

Oscar Wilde


F. P. Greve's Oscar Wilde Translations:
Dorian Grays Bildnis, ©1903/4

Greve Portrait, 1902
©gd June 2005


Author: Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.

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

Edition: Neue, billige, Ausgabe. --

Published: Minden : J.C.C. Bruns' Verlag, [ca. 1908, c1903].

Description: 367 p. ; 19 cm.

Note: Translation of Oscar Wilde's only novel The picture of Dorian Gray, orig. publ. serially in 1890 in "Lippincott's monthly magazine" (Philadelphia).

This is a later, ca. 1908 printing of the 2nd ed. of Greve's German text ("13. bis 15. Tausend"). --
The orig. 1902/3 ed. had the title: Das Bildnis Dorian Grays -- it is relatively rare, whereas 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.

Local Note:
Spine title: Dorian Gray. --
Opposite tp, a long list of Greve's works (4, excluding his two novels Fanny Essler and Maurermeister Ihles Haus, 1905 & 1906/7 respectively).
His ranslations number no less than twenty:
5 by Oscar Wilde,
3 by Meredith;
6 by Wells ;
4 by Flaubert, and
2 by Gide. --

Most of these were published by Bruns, who proudly specifies his Ducal Court connections on the cover: "Herzogl. Sachs. und Fürstl. Schaumburg-Lippische Hof-Verlagsbuchhandlung." --

Last p.: "Oscar Wilde-Literatur," a list of 7 titles published by Bruns.
4 of these were transl. by Greve, 2 by Carl Hagemann, 1 by Freiherr von Teschenberg.
Prices are indicated as well.

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



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