This Second Edition is based on the authoritative texts chosen by theeditors from their scholarly edition of The Complete Poetry of PercyBysshe Shelley.
The text is fully annotated and includes a separate table of contents for the novel to assist readers in locating specific episodes or passages.Hardy's hand-drawn map of Wessex and the manuscript titl
The text of The Mill on the Floss, that of the 1862 third edition forwhich Eliot made her last revisions, has been annotated in order toassist the reader with obscure references and allusions."Backgro
The editor supplies explanatoryannotations and textual notes."Historical Backgrounds" is an especially rich collection ofseventeenth-and eighteenth-century documents about colonizers andslaves in the
The editor has made necessary typographical corrections and carefullyintroduced and annotated the text for the student reader.Dickens’ number plans for David Copperfield, which reveal his practiceboth
The accompanying apparatus has been revised in accordance with recent biographical and critical materials. The Backgrounds and Criticism sections provide important essays that shed light on major crit
"Backgrounds, Sources, and Contemporary Reactions" reprints all of the documents on industrialism, education, and utilitarianism that appeared in the Second Edition, save one, and introduces new piece
This edition reprints the first published version, that of 1893.Misprints and errors have been corrected and are identified in "A Noteon the Text."? Footnotes indicate changes in wording Crane made fo
New footnotes have been added, based on discoveries by the leading Soviet Dostoevsky scholar, Sergei Belov. "Backgrounds and Sources", highly praised in the Second Edition, remains unaltered. Included
"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
Presents the 1813 first edition text of Pride and Prejudice , accompanied by an interesting selection of background material including biographical portraits by Austin's family members and biographer
This brand new collection, impeccably edited by James Pethica, presentsa comprehensive selection of Yeats's major contributions in poetry,drama, prose fiction, autobiography, and criticism.
When it was published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk revolutionizedthinking about the experience of African Americans in the UnitedStates. This collection of essays on African American histor
The text reprinted here is based on award-winning translator BurtonRaffel's masterful translation of Don Quijote, which is consistent,fluid, and modeled closely on the original Spanish.
This perennially popular Norton Critical Edition reprints for the first time the definitive Iowa-California text of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, complete with all the original illustrations by Edwa
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
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
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 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.
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
The text of this revised Norton Critical Edition of Leo Tolstoy’s epic novel is based on the Louise and Aylmer Maude translation. The editor has made revisions where appropriate; the annotations have
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
The text of this Norton Critical Edition of Thackeray's acclaimed 1848novel is based on the Garland edition, the text approved by the ModernLanguage Association.
