The Picture of Dorian Gray August 1889, Stoddart dined with Oscar Wilde, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and T. P. Gill at the Langham Hotel, and commissioned novellas from each writer. Conan Doyle promptly submitted "The Sign of the Four" (1890) to Stoddart, but Wilde was more dilatory; Conan Doyle's second Sherlock Holmes novel was published in the February 1890 edition of "Lippincott's Monthly Magazine", yet Stoddart did not receive Wilde's manuscript for "The Picture of Dorian Gray" until 7 April 1890, nine months after having commissioned the novel from him. The literary merits of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" impressed Stoddart, but, as an editor,
To the Last Man (Grey novel) To the Last Man (Grey novel) To the Last Man: A Story of the Pleasant Valley War is a western novel written by Zane Grey. "To The Last Man" is a shorter version of "Tonto Basin". Grey submitted the manuscript of "Tonto Basin" to the magazine "The Country Gentleman," which published it in serialization as "To the Last Man" from May 28, 1921 through July 30, 1921. This was a much shorter version of the original leaving out much of the backstory. This shorter version was published by Harper Brothers. It is a story of a family feud healed by