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Literatures in English

1. The Merchant of Venice

   William Shakespeare, Leah S. Marcus

   The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare’s most beautiful plays and, conversely, his ugliest. Juxtaposed within the same conceptual frame are heavenly and musical harmonies, romantic love, materialism, and racism.More

2. Middle English Lyrics

   Richard L. Hoffman, Maxwell S. Luria

   This Norton Critical Edition offers one of the largest collections of Middle English lyrics ever made available to the college student.More

3. Middle English Romances

   Stephen H. A. Shepherd

   This Norton Critical Edition presents significant examples of one of the most important bodies of English poetry written before the Renaissance.More

4. Middlemarch

   George Eliot, Bert G Hornback

   The text of Middlemarch is that of the 1874 edition, the last corrected by the author.More

5. The Mill on the Floss

   George Eliot, Carol T. Christ

   The best-known and most autobiographical of George Eliot’s novels is now available as a Norton Critical Edition.More

6. Mill: The Spirit of the Age, On Liberty, The Subjection of Women

   John Stuart Mill, Alan Ryan

   This long-anticipated Norton Critical Edition represents an extensive revision of its predecessor, On Liberty, edited by the late David Spitz.More

7. Modern and Contemporary Irish Drama

   John P. Harrington

   Second Edition

   Modern and Contemporary Irish Drama is the ideal focal point for the study of Irish literature and culture and, because of its many great twentieth-century works, for the study of drama more generally.More

8. Moll Flanders

   Daniel Defoe, Albert J. Rivero

   Moll Flanders is one of the best-selling novels of all time.More

9. Newton

   Isaac Newton, I. Bernard Cohen, Richard S. Westfall

   At last—an illuminating and accessible edition of Isaac Newton's writings, intended for nonspecialist readers. I. Bernard Cohen and Richard S. Westfall have meticulously collected representative works from every major aspect of Newton's intellectual life.More

10. The Nigger of the "Narcissus"

    Joseph Conrad, Robert Kimbrough

    The text is the authoritative version used in the Collected Works published in 1921, which Conrad prepared from a 1910 reprint of the original English version of 1898.More

11. North and South

    Elizabeth Gaskell, Alan Shelston

    A revolutionary social and political commentary, North and South solidified Gaskell’s place in the company of Victorian England’s finest novelists.More

12. Northanger Abbey

    Jane Austen, Susan Fraiman

    Northanger Abbey, written in Jane Austen’s youth and posthumously published, is arguably her most mysterious, imaginative, and optimistic novel.More

13. The Norton Anthology of English Literature

    Stephen Greenblatt, M. H. Abrams, Alfred David, Et Al.

    Eighth Edition / Volume(s): 1 / Middle Ages:Restoration and Eighteenth Century

    Read by millions of students over seven editions, The Norton Anthology of English Literature remains the most trusted undergraduate survey of English literature available and one of the most successful college texts ever published.More

14. The Norton Anthology of English Literature

    Stephen Greenblatt, Carol T. Christ, Alfred David, Et Al.

    Ninth Edition / Volume(s): 1 / Middle Ages:Restoration and Eighteenth Century

    The most-trusted literature anthology of all time, now in its 50th year.More

15. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, The Major Authors

    Stephen Greenblatt, Carol T. Christ, Alfred David, Et Al.

    Ninth Edition / Volume(s): One-Volume

    The most-trusted literature anthology.More