This Norton Critical Edition of a Dickens favorite reprints the 1846 text, the last edition of the novel substantially revised by Dickens and the one that most clearly reflects his authorial intention
Coleridge combined the genius of a poet with the mind of aphilosophical critic. His writings are wide-ranging in form andcontent, and vast in number. Norton's long-awaited edition is the mostcomprehen
The Norton Critical Edition is again based on the First Folio (1623), the only authoritative text of the play. The volume includes a revised introduction and new annotations and textual notes.The Seco
This Norton Critical Edition presents Chaucer's four dream visions and selected shorter poems and is suitable for both beginning and advanced students.
Jacob's Room is Virginia Woolf's experimental third novel, set in England as the country moves inex- orably toward the outbreak of World War I. The text reprinted in this Norton Critical Edition is t
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.
The first gothic novel in America, Wieland (1798) is now available in a Norton Critical Edition. Wieland, the story of religious delusion and horrific violence on the eve of the American Revolution,
This Norton Critical Edition includes the three most important of Rousseau's political writings: Discourse on Inequality, Discourse on Political Economy, and On Social Contract.
This Norton Critical Edition of Edith Wharton's quintessential novel of the Gilded Age reprints the Scribner's magazine text of 1905, including the eight original illustrations.
This Norton Critical Edition presents some of the most important voicesin modern drama and, through the inclusion of supporting materials,places each play in its proper intellectual, artistic, and hi
Upon its publication in 1845, Narrative of the Life of FrederickDouglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself became an immediatebest-seller. In addition to its far-reaching impact on the ant
This volume contains twenty-one of the hundred novelle that compriseBoccaccio's masterpiece. The stories have been chosen to represent themost notable of the author's themes and the most characterist
This authoritative text of Bleak House was the first to be establishedby a comparative study of all the surviving versions of Dickens' novel,incorporating evidence from the original manuscript and co
This Second Edition builds on its predecessor's strengths by adding a sixth play, Aphra Behn's The Rover, a comedy that has clearly come into prominence in recent years.
Upon its publication in 1901, Up From Slavery became the mostinfluential book written by an African American. As one of a handful ofclassic American autobiographies, its place in the literary andhist
This edition of "the most modern of eighteenth-century novels" reprints the text of the first edition of the volumes of Tristram Shandy as they appeared from December 1759 to January 1767, including
The text of this edition of one of the finest and funniest epistolarynovels is taken from the first edition of 1771 and includes theillustrations that Thomas Rowlandson added to the novel in 1790-93.
Set against the backdrop of a fictional 1890s town, Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio depicts the not-so-simple lives of its residents as seen through the eyes of George Willard, a young and observ
Christine de Pizan (ca. 1364-ca. 1421) is Europe's first professionalwoman writer. She wrote an astonishing body of work in many genres,including lyric poetry, allegorical dream visions, histor
This volume contains the complete and definitive texts of virtually allof Swift's major works, as well as a generous selection of his poetryand other writings.
"The best Darwin anthology on the market" (Stephen Jay Gould, Harvard)has just become better, in this newly revised version of the nowclassic Norton Critical Edition, first published in 1970.The impa
The Second Edition of this Norton Critical Edition continues to bebased on Albert Cook's translation, widely acclaimed for its poeticphrasing and linguistic accuracy.
The Second Edition of the Norton Critical Edition of Robinson Crusoe isbased on the Shakespeare Head Press reprint of the first edition copyin the British Museum, with the "errata" listed by Defoe's
The text is that of a new authoritative text, which closely follows theone Austen oversaw when the novel was revised and reprinted in 1816. Supporting materials include an introduction, annotatio
This all-new edition of Hawthorne's celebrated 1851 novel is based on The Ohio State University Press's Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Byron's Poetry and Prose presents an extensive selection of Byron's poetry, letters, and journal entries in chronological clusters, allowing readers to see the changes that took place in his writing i
This Norton Critical Edition is the only edition available that includes both the 1890 Lippincott's and the 1891 book versions of The Picture of Dorian Gray, allowing students to compare the two publi
This heavily revised second edition includes the originally published 1818 text of the first edition publication of Mary Shelley's much discussed, analyzed, and critiqued Frankenstein, a new introduct