This Norton Critical Edition includes:Lippincott’s MagazineEditorial matter by Michael Patrick Gillespie.The Picture of Dorian GraySeven 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 Series 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 . Michael Patrick Gillespie is Professor of English at Florida International University. He is the author of Oscar Wilde and the Poetics of Ambiguity , Branding Oscar Wilde , The Aesthetics of Chaos: Nonlinear Thinking and Contemporary Literary Criticism , Inverted Volumes Improperly Arranged: James Joyce and His Trieste Library , Reading the Book Himself: Narrative Strategies in the Works of James Joyce , The Aesthetics of Chaos , The Myth of an Irish Cinema , James Joyce and the Exilic Imagination , Reading William Kennedy , and Film Appreciation through Genres . His other edited works include the Norton Critical Edition of The Importance of Being Earnest , James Joyce and the Fabrication of an Irish Identity , and Joyce through the Ages: A Non-Linear View .