The Picture of Dorian Gray - 3rd edition

This Norton Critical Edition includes:

• The 1890 (Lippincott's Magazine) version and the 1891 (book) version of the novel. Under the editorial guidance of Wilde scholar Michael Patrick Gillespie, students have the opportunity to comparatively read and analyse both texts of this controversial novel.


• Editorial matter by Michael Patrick Gillespie.


• "Backgrounds" and "Reviews and Reactions" sections that allow readers to gauge The Picture of Dorian Gray's sensational reception and to consider the heated public debate over art and morality that followed-including Oscar Wilde's vehement replies to individual critics.


• Seven critical essays-six of them new to the Third Edition-that address the novel's major themes: aestheticism, decadence and vice. Contributors include Joseph Carroll, Nils Clausson, Emily Eells, Michael Patrick Gillespie, Richard Haslam, Donald L. Lawler and Ellen Scheible.


• A chronology and a selected bibliography.

About the author

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland. Wilde studied at Trinity College in Dublin and at Magdalen College in Oxford, England, before settling down in London and having a long, successful career as a poet, playwright, and author. Wilde is best known for his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and for his satirical play The Importance of Being Earnest.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Gillespie, Michael Patrick Gillespie, Oscar Wilde
• Assisted by: Michael Patrick Gillespie (Editor), Gillespie Michael Patrick (Editor)
• Publisher: Norton W W Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9780393696875
• ISBN: 978-0-393-69687-5
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 214 mm x 28 mm
• Series: Norton Critical Editions; Norton Critical Editions
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Ireland, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism