New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2017. Second Edition. Paperback. “I have used this textbook for four courses on children’s literature with enrollments of over ninety students. It is without doubt the most well organized selection of literary fairy tales and critical commentaries currently available. Students love it.” —Lita Barrie..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2016. Anna More (ed.), Edith Grossman (tr.). First Edition. Paperback. A wealth of background and analytical material makes Sor Juana's proto-feminist writings, newly translated, all the more compelling. 2014 PEN USA Literary Award for Translation Finalist This Norton Critical Edition includes: ·..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2015. Dorothy Gilbert (ed.), Dorothy Gilbert (tr.). First Edition. Paperback. Marie de France’s beautiful poems of courtly love, enchantment, and mystery are now available in a Norton Critical Edition. Winner of the 2016 Northern California Book Award for Translation of Poetry. Honorable..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2017. Robert S. Levine, Cindy Weinstein (eds.). First Edition. Paperback. When Pierre was published one year after Moby-Dick, expectations were high. Readers expected—and Melville delivered—adventure, humor, and brilliance. Magnificent and strange, Pierre is a richly allusive novel mirroring both antebellum America and Melville’s own..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2016. Nicholas Cronk (ed.). Third Edition. Paperback. Candide has been delighting readers since 1759 with its satiric wit, provocations, and warnings. The novella has never been out of print and has been translated into every conceivable language. The text of this Norton Critical..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2015. Michael Neill (ed.). First Edition. Paperback. The great English Renaissance tragedy—violent, powerful, unforgettable—in a freshly edited and annotated student edition. “Neill’s edit of the play is very well done. … If there’s a more knowledgeable or erudite unraveling of the play, I...... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2016. Ralph Pite (ed.). Third Edition. Paperback. This Third Norton Critical Edition of Hardy’s final novel has been revised to reflect the breadth of responses it has received over the last fifteen years. The text of the novel is again based on Hardy’s final..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2020. Robert S. Levine (ed.). Second Edition. Paperback. “The notes and the annotations in this and other Norton volumes most influence my decision in choosing this text. I thought the volume excellent. My students commented that it was very helpful.” —MARGARET MURRAY, Western Connecticut..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2019. Second Edition. Paperback. “This scrupulous new translation of The Epic of Gilgamesh manages to convey much of the archaic power and even something of the occasional humor of the ancient Mesopotamian poem. What is especially valuable is that the translators, by collating passages..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2020. Michael Patrick Gillespie (ed.). Third Edition. Paperback. “This edition is of the utmost importance to those interested in Wilde and literary modernism. It seems certain to become the standard edition of Dorian Gray.” —Ned Lukacher, University of Illinois at Chicago This Norton..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2017. Richard Niland (ed.). First Edition. Paperback. “[A] masterly study of the inner workings of the disordered minds whose aim is destruction, violence, and the overturning of law and order by means of bombs.” —The (London) Observer (1907) This Norton Critical Edition includes..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2011. First Edition. Paperback. Of the five poems contained in this book, two are acknowledged masterpieces. The plot of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, an Arthurian romance, brilliantly interweaves elements of suspense and high comedy. Pearl, a dream vision, presents its poignant..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2016. Third Edition. Paperback. The Seagull Reader: Essays brings together a mix of 56 essays--13 new to the Third Edition--by a variety of writers, from established authors (Dwight Eisenhower, David Brooks, and Barbara Ehrenreich) and rising voices (Atul Gawande and Ta-Nehisi Coates) to authors..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2014. Susanna Lee (Ed.). First Edition. Paperback. In its centennial year, Marcel Proust’s masterpiece of literary imagination is available in a Norton Critical Edition. Marcel Proust’s seven-volume masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time (A la recherche du temps perdu), has inspired many superlatives..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2013. Bryan Waterman, Jennifer Harris (eds.). First Edition. Paperback. Hannah Webster Foster's two major Early American works with a wealth of primary materials are now available in a Norton Critical Edition. Published anonymously in 1797, Hannah Webster Foster’s The Coquette grabbed American interest..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2011. George M Logan (ed. and tr.). Third Edition. Paperback. Inspiring, provocative, prophetic, and enigmatic, Utopia is the literary masterpiece of a visionary statesman and one of the most influential books of the modern world. Based on Thomas More’s penetrating analysis of the..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2013. Donald Gray (ed.). Third Edition. Paperback. Newly discovered letters by Lewis Carroll, an expanded selection of diary excerpts, and a wealth of new biographical materials are some of the features of this revised Norton Critical Edition. This perennially popular Norton Critical Edition..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2014. Michael Neill (ed.). First Edition. Paperback. Thomas Kyd’s highly influential and popular revenge play is now available in a richly documented and critically engaging Norton Critical Edition. The freshly edited and annotated text comes with a full introduction and illustrative materials intended..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2013. Stanley Corngold (tr. and ed.). First Edition. Paperback. “Corngold’s new translation is of the very highest quality, punctiliously faithful to Goethe’s German and sensitive to gradations of style in this extraordinary, trail-blazing first novel.” —J. M. Coetzee, New York Review of Books... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012. Henry Schmidt (tr.), Matthew Wilson Smith (ed.). First Edition. Paperback. Few writers have transformed literature and theater so dramatically. Based on Henry J. Schmidt’s translations of The Hessian Messenger, Danton’s Death, Lenz, Leonce and Lena, and Woyzeck. The Georg Büchner Prize is..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012. J. Paul Hunter (ed.). Second Edition. Paperback. The best-selling student edition on the market, now available in a Second Edition. Almost two centuries after its publication, Frankenstein remains an indisputably classic text and Mary Shelley’s finest work. This extensively revised Norton..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012. Werner Sollors (ed.). First Edition. Paperback. The Norton Critical Edition of this hugely influential novel gives readers the fullest possible sense of its historical background and critical assessment. Inspired by the 1898 Wilmington Riot and the eyewitness accounts of Charles W. Chesnutt’s..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012. Robert B Stepto, Jennifer Rae Greeson (eds). First Edition. Paperback. Fourteen conjure tales by one of America’s most influential African American fiction writers. This Norton Critical Edition of The Conjure Stories arranges the tales chronologically by composition date, allowing readers to discern..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2013. James McIntosh (ed.). Second Edition. Paperback. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s best-loved tales are now available in a revised Norton Critical Edition. This revised Norton Critical Edition brings together twenty-three of Hawthorne’s tales in all their psychological and moral complexity. The Second Edition adds the..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2017. Ninth Edition. Paperback. A responsive, refreshed, and media-rich revision of the market-leading anthology of American literature. The most-trusted anthology for complete works, balanced selections, and helpful editorial apparatus, The Norton Anthology of American Literature features a cover-to-cover revision. The Ninth Edition introduces..... More
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