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The 'Dublin: One City, One Book' choice for April 2010 is The Picture of Dorian Gray by Dubliner Oscar Wilde.
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Right: The new book cover of the Penguin edition with the One City One Book logo. Click thumbnail to enlarge.
Below: This image is of the title page of the 1925 illustrated edition, published by John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd., London. Has wonderful illustrations by Henry Keen. This and other editions can be viewed in the Reading Room, Dublin City Library & Archive, Pearse Street, Dublin 2.
I was wondering... is it like
I was wondering... is it like in the Netherlands where the book for 'one city one book' is given for free at the library in the special edition? I would L O V E to receive the Irish books somehow from 2006 till now.
I saw the new edition in the shop in Amsterdam, but without the logo... anyone able to help me somehow?
Thanks!
Hans
People might be interested to
People might be interested to know that the Museum of Childhood and Tara's Palace, located in the Courtyard of Malahide Castle, has a doll's house that belonged to Lady Wilde, Oscar's Mother.