Leo Tolstoy, George Gibian
This Second Norton Critical Edition of Leo Tolstoy’s epic novel is again based on the Louise and Aylmer Maude translation (originally published in 1918; revised with notes in 1939), which has never been
surpassed. This volume reprints the 1939 edition, which the editor has revised, making twenty-one textual changes and revising or adding forty-nine footnotes.More
L. M. Montgomery, Mary Henley Rubio, Elizabeth Waterston
Since its publication in 1908, Anne of Green Gables has been an enduring bestseller and arguably Canada’s most famous novel.More
Stephen Owen
Hailed as a groundbreaking text in Chinese Studies, An Anthology of Chinese Literature brings together representative works from the first millenium B.C. to the end of the imperial system in 1911.More
Anton Chekhov, Laurence Senelick
Anton Chekhov revolutionized Russian theater through his inimitable portrayals of characters faced with complex moral dilemmas.More
Anton Chekhov, Ralph E. Matlaw
The thirty-four stories in this volume span Chekhov’s creative career.More
Husain Haddawy, Daniel Heller-Roazen, Muhsin Mahdi
This Norton Critical Edition includes twenty-eight tales from The Arabian Nights translated by Husain Haddawy on the basis of the oldest existing Arabic manuscript.More
Baldesar Castiglione, Daniel Javitch, Charles S. Singleton
The Book of the Courtier (1528) is a series of fictional conversations by courtiers of the Duke of Urbino that takes place in 1507, while Castiglione was himself attaché to the Duke.More
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Susan McReynolds Oddo
Second Edition
The Second Edition of the Norton Critical Edition of The Brothers Karamazov is based on a significantly revised translation by Susan McReynolds.More
Voltaire, Robert M. Adams
Second Edition
Robert M. Adams’s superlative revised translation of Candide provides the basis for this widely adopted Norton Critical Edition.More
Maria Tatar
Fairy tales shape our cultures and enrich our imaginations; their narrative stability and cultural durability are incontestable.More
Karl Marx, Frederic L. Bender
Second Edition
Karl Marx’s 1848 text is reframed in this revised Norton Critical Edition in the context of twenty-first-century theoretical debates, capitalist globalization, the information technology revolution, and contemporary struggles up to and including the 2011 “Arab Spring.”More
Boethius, Douglas C. Langston
One of the most influential texts to come out of the late Middle Ages.More
Fyodor Dostoevsky, George Gibian
Third Edition
Jessie Coulson’s translation provides the text for the Third Edition of this acclaimed Norton Critical Edition.More
Nikolai Gogol, George Gibian
Few literary works have been so variously interpreted as Nikolai
Gogol’s enduring comic masterpiece, Dead Souls.More
Wole Soyinka, Simon Gikandi
This Norton Critical Edition of Death and the King's Horseman is the only student edition available in the United States. Based on events that took place in 1946 in the ancient Yoruban city of Oyo, Soyinka's acclaimed and powerful play addresses classic issues of cultural conflict, tragic decision-making, and the psychological mindsets of individuals and groups. The text of the play is accompanied by an introduction and explanatory annotations for the many allusions to traditional Nigerian myth and culture.More