Series: Norton Critical Editions

The text is unabridged, with original spelling and extensive, easy-to-use marginal glosses and footnotes. No other edition accurately represents the actual (and likely authorial) divisions of the text as attested to by its two surviving witnesses—Caxton’s 1485 print and, especially, the famous Winchester Manuscript. The Winchester Manuscript is now generally agreed to be the more authentic of the two earlier...

The text is that of the 1813 first edition, accompanied by revised and expanded explanatory annotations. This edition also includes biographical portraits of Austen by members of her family and, new to the fourth edition, those by Jon Spence (Becoming Jane Austen) and Paula Byrne (The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things). Also included are fifteen critical essays,...

This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1826 Henry Colburn edition of the novel, the only one approved by Mary Shelley. Introduction and explanatory footnotes by Chris Washington. A rich selection of contextual documents—twenty-six in all—pertaining to The Last Man's background and sources, reception and impact, other related works by Shelley, and other "Last Man" texts. Fourteen carefully chosen critical assessments...

This Norton Critical Edition includes: The First Folio (1623) text of Twelfth Night, with annotations and marginal glosses. Natasha Korda's expert introduction and list of textual edits made to the Folio text for this edition. "Intertexts," a rich selection of ancient and Renaissance works in conversation with Twelfth Night's themes of disguised identity, gender fluidity, and fictive letter-writing. Nine illustrations,...

This Norton Critical Edition includes: The New York Edition text of the novel—the one that had James's final authority—newly and fully annotated by Jonathan Warren. A full introduction, compositional history, and textual notes by Jonathan Warren. Revised and expanded contextual materials, topically organized to promote classroom discussion: "James, the Ghost Story, and the Supernatural," "James on The Turn of the...

This Norton Critical Edition includes: The first British edition of the novel, published in 1886 by Longmans, Green, and Co., the only edition set directly from Stevenson's manuscript and for which he read and corrected proofs. Deborah Lutz's thorough introduction and detailed explanatory footnotes to the novel. Seven illustrations. A rich and relevant selection of background materials centered on the...

Winner of the 2016 Northern California Book Award for Translation of Poetry. Honourable Mention for the 2015 Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Translation of a Literary Work. Marie de France was a medieval poet who was probably born in France and who lived in England during the twelfth century. Prominent among the earliest poets writing in...

This Norton Critical Edition includes: The first edition of the novel (1859) accompanied by twenty-seven illustrations, from original images by Halbot Knight Browne (“Phiz”) to cartoons from The Simpsons. An expansive introduction and detailed explanatory annotations by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst. Thematically organised contextual materials designed to promote classroom discussion. Topics include “Dickens on France and the French,” “Revolution and Aftermath,” “Living...

Byron's Poetry and Prose includes "Criticism", which is chronologically keyed to Byron's poetry and features both classic and recent examinations of Byron's writing and life. It includes assessments by Anne Barton, Donald H. Reiman, Jane Stabler, Jerome J. McGann, Susan J. Wolfson, and James Chandler. The edition also contains a Biographical Register, Chronology, Selected Bibliography, and an Index of Poem...

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...

Yeats’s Poetry, Drama, and Prose brings together a comprehensive collection of essays that provide a deep exploration into the works of William Butler Yeats. This compilation is a valuable resource for anyone seeking to understand the layers and complexities of Yeats's contributions to literature. Criticism in this collection includes twenty-four interpretive essays by notable authors such as T. S. Eliot,...

This Norton Critical Edition includes: The First Folio (1623) text of Macbeth, with updated and expanded footnotes and introductory materials by Robert S. Miola. Illustrations from a wide range of adaptations, including modern stage and film productions. "The Actors' Gallery," collecting reflections from actors and actresses about their roles in major productions of Macbeth from the eighteenth to twenty-first centuries....

This Norton Critical Edition includes: The New York Edition of the novel, accompanied by Michael Gorra's introduction and explanatory footnotes. Background and contextual materials centering on James as a writer, The Portrait of a Lady in revision, and reviews of the novel by James's contemporaries. Seven important critical essays, chosen for their accessibility. A Chronology and Suggestions for Further Reading....

The texts are extensively glossed and are accompanied by individual introductions and explanatory annotations. A lightly regularised system of spellings has been adopted. No prior knowledge of Chaucer is assumed. Dream Visions and Other Poems connects the poems to their classical and medieval foundations and includes works by Virgil, Ovid, Cicero, Boethius, Dante, and Boccaccio, among others. From the wealth...

Each text has been carefully edited and annotated for student readers. As his writing reflects, Melville was extraordinarily well read. Contexts collects important sources for each novel, including writings by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Amasa Delano, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Criticism includes twenty-eight essays about the novels sure to promote classroom discussion. Contributors include Leo Marx, Elizabeth Hardwick, Frederick Busch, Robert Lowell,...

This edition reprints the first published version from 1893. Misprints and errors have been corrected and are identified in "A Note on the Text." Footnotes indicate changes in wording that Crane made for the 1896 edition and explain slang expressions and customs of the day. Maps of the novel's New York City locales are also provided. "Backgrounds and Sources" includes...

This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1925 first American edition text, introduced and annotated by Anne Fernald. A map of Mrs. Dalloway's London. An unusually rich selection of contextual materials, including diary entries and letters related to the composition of the novel, essays, short stories, and biographical excerpts, and the only introduction that Virginia Woolf wrote to any of her...

This edition presents Parts I and II complete. Cyrus Hamlin provides essential supporting material for this difficult text, and his Interpretive Notes have been expanded and reset in larger, easy-to-read type. Faust also features "Comments by Contemporaries," which includes short pieces by Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle, and Wilhelm von Humboldt. "Modern Criticism"—comprised of ten essays newly added...

The text is accompanied by an introduction, textual annotations by the editor, and a map of Paris. Père Goriot has had a profound impact on literature, as illustrated in "Responses: Contemporaries and Other Novelists," highlighting Balzac's immense influence on other writers such as Charles Baudelaire, Hippolyte Taine, Émile Zola, and Marcel Proust. "Twentieth-Century Criticism" presents a superb selection of critical...

Moll Flanders is one of the best-selling novels of all time. This Norton Critical Edition is again based on the first edition text (1722), the only text known to be Defoe's own. It is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations and the editor’s essay outlining the novel's textual history. Contexts collects related documents on criminal transport, contemporary accounts of lives of...

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 folly and tragedy of the politics of his time and all times, Utopia (1516) is a seedbed of alternative political institutions and a perennially challenging exploration of...

This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1674 text of Paradise Lost, with emendations and adoptions from the first edition and from the scribal manuscript. Spelling and punctuation have been modernised for student readers. An illuminating introduction and abundant explanatory annotations by Gordon Teskey. Source and background materials, including Milton's greatest prose work, Areopagitica, in its entirety and key selections from...

As a unique feature, the Third Edition includes generous excerpts from Thoreau's journal, reprinted by special arrangements with Princeton University Press from the definitive edition of his writings. Spanning the years 1845-54, these selections vividly display Thoreau's intensive exploration of his local landscape; the fusion of literary and natural history field work that informs Walden, "Walking," and "Wild Apples"; and...

The Bhagavad Gita, the "Song of the Lord," is an ancient Hindu scripture about virtue presented as a dialogue between Krishna, an incarnation of God, and the warrior Arjuna on the eve of a great battle over succession to the throne. This new verse translation of the classic Sanskrit text combines the skills of leading Hinduist Gavin Flood with the...

This Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1985 corrected text and is accompanied by newly updated and expanded explanatory annotations and an introduction by Michael Gorra. Backgrounds and Contexts is divided into three sections, each of which includes a concise introduction by Michael Gorra. These introductions carefully frame the issues presented, with particular attention to As I Lay Dying's...

Through what Joyce described as their "style of scrupulous meanness," the stories present a direct, sometimes searing view of Dublin in the early twentieth century. The text of this Norton Critical Edition is based on renowned Joyce scholar Hans Walter Gabler's edited text and includes his editorial notes and the introduction to his scholarly edition, which details and discusses Dubliners'...

It is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations. Gulliver's Travels is contextualised through materials that influenced Swift's writing of the novel, as well as documents that suggest its initial reception. These include Swift's correspondence, Alexander Pope's poems on Gulliver's Travels, and relevant passages from Gargantua and Pantagruel. The section on criticism includes fourteen assessments of Gulliver's Travels by notable figures such...

This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1874 corrected edition of the text, with small textual variations from Eliot's manuscript. Introductory materials and explanatory footnotes by Ronjaunee Chatterjee. Twenty-three background selections from Eliot's correspondence, journals, and other writings. Seventeen critical responses, including five contemporary reactions and twelve critical analyses of the novel's most important themes. A chronology of Eliot's life and...

This Norton Critical Edition includes: Moby-Dick, Melville's classic novel of whaling and revenge, based on Hershel Parker's revision of the 1967 text edited by Harrison Hayford and Hershel Parker. Twenty-six illustrations, including maps, contemporary engravings, and diagrams of whaleboat rigging. Background and source materials centering on whaling and whalecraft, Melville's international reception, the inspirations for Moby-Dick, and Melville's related correspondence....

This Norton Critical Edition includes: Michael Katz's new translation of the world's most-read Russian novel accompanied by his preface and detailed explanatory footnotes. Names of Principal Characters, a Note on Character's Names, and a map of St. Petersburg. Key excerpts from Dostoevsky's notebooks, letters, and his early draft of Part II, Chapter 2. Twenty-six scholarly essays on the novel from...

This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1925 first American edition text of the novel. A full introduction, a note on the text, and explanatory annotations by David J. Alworth. An unusually rich selection of contextual materials, including Fitzgerald's sources for his greatest novel, excerpts from his ledger and notebooks, three of his related short stories, twenty-two carefully chosen letters concerning...

In addition to a broad selection of the poems, the volume includes over 100 images (16 in colour), emphasising the centrality of pictorial representations to Blake's verse. Biographical context is provided through dozens of excerpts from Blake's notebook, letters, marginalia, and other writings. Criticism offers twenty wide-ranging commentaries by writers from Blake's contemporaries to present-day critics, among them Samuel Taylor...

This Norton Critical Edition includes: Emily Wilson's authoritative translation of Homer's masterpiece, accompanied by her informative introduction, explanatory footnotes, and book-by-book summaries. Four maps, created especially for this translation. Contextual materials including sources and analogues by Homer, Sappho, Pindar, and others. Also included are carefully chosen passages from (mainly) ancient texts that provide insight into The Odyssey and its reception...

This Norton Critical Edition includes: The American edition of the novel, first published by Harcourt Brace in 1927, introduced and annotated by Margaret Homans. A 1924-28 chronology of To the Lighthouse's composition, revision, publication, and reception. A rich selection of background materials, thematically organised for ease of reference. Topics include: "Autobiographical Writings," "Family and Other Contemporary Contexts and Sources," "Essays...

The texts reprinted in this new Norton Critical Edition have been scrupulously edited and are from the Westmoreland manuscript where possible, collated against the most important families of Donne manuscripts—the Cambridge Belam, the Dublin Trinity, and the O'Flahertie—and compared with all seven seventeenth-century printed editions of the poems as well as all major twentieth-century editions. John Donne's Poetry is divided...

The text of the Fourth Edition of the Norton Critical Edition of Emma is based on the 1816 edition published by John Murray. George Justice has lightly and judiciously emended the text for faithfulness and clarity. The novel is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations as well as facsimiles of the 1816 title and dedication pages. Backgrounds collects a wealth of...

Written during a time of great political turmoil, social anxiety, and against the backdrop of the French Revolution, Wollstonecraft's argument continues to challenge and inspire. This revised and expanded Third Edition is based on the 1792 second-edition text and is accompanied by revised and expanded explanatory annotations. Backgrounds and Contexts is significantly expanded and contains twenty-four works organized thematically into...

Kafka's Selected Stories is presented in this Norton Critical Edition with new translations by leading Kafka scholar and translator Stanley Corngold. The edition comprises thirty stories, each accompanied by detailed annotations for enhanced understanding. "Backgrounds and Contexts" offers readers a glimpse into Kafka's creative process through extracts from his letters, diaries, and conversations, providing invaluable insight into his mind and...

Edmund Spenser's Poetry is now available in a revised and updated Norton Critical Edition. This revised and enlarged Fourth Edition expands and improves on the strengths of the previous three editions. All selections are based on early and established texts, fully glossed, and carefully annotated. An Editor's Note follows each section. This new edition addresses the shifts in scholarly and...

This Norton Critical Edition also includes: A preface, full introduction, and appendix ("On Tragic and Epic Performance") by Michelle Zerba and David Gorman. Ancient Sources, providing readers with the opportunity to consider the epic, dramatic, philosophical, and rhetorical texts that influenced the Poetics, including writings by Homer, Sophocles, Euripides, Gorgias, Plato, among others. Several modern interpretations by Reuben A. Brower,...