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• Norton Critical Editions

English Literature

1. In Memoriam

   Alfred Tennyson, Erik Gray

   Second Edition

   Tennyson’s central poem is presented with an extensive introduction that provides background information on the poet and poem as well as an overview of In Memoriam’s formal and thematic peculiarities, including Tennyson’s use of the stanza and the poem’s rhyme scheme.More

2. An Essay on the Principle of Population

   Thomas Robert Malthus, Philip Appleman

   Second Edition

   While millions face hunger, malnutrition, and starvation, the world’s population is increasing by over 225,000 people per day, 80 million per year.More

3. Coleridge's Poetry and Prose

   Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Nicholas Halmi, Paul Magnuson, Et Al.

   Coleridge combined the genius of a poet with the mind of a philosophical critic.More

4. 1 Henry IV

   William Shakespeare, Gordon McMullan

   Third Edition

   The text, with few departures, is that of the First Quarto (1598) edition of the play.More

5. Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

   Robert Louis Stevenson, Katherine B. Linehan

   This Norton Critical Edition of Stevenson's enduringly popular and chilling tale is based on the 1886 First British Edition, the only edition set directly from Stevenson's manuscript and for which he read proofs. The text has been rigorously annotated for student readers and is accompanied by a textual appendix.More

6. Wuthering Heights

   Emily Brontë, Richard J. Dunn

   Fourth Edition

   The text of the novel is based on the first edition of 1847.More

7. English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology

   David Bevington, Lars Engle, Katharine Eisaman Maus, Et Al.

   The most extensive new collection in this field published in more than three decades, English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology surveys the astonishing, and astonishingly varied, dramatic works written and performed in Elizabethan and Jacobean England.More

8. George Bernard Shaw's Plays

   George Bernard Shaw, Sandie Byrne

   Second Edition

   This collection presents a cross-section of Shaw's most important theater work—Mrs. Warren's Profession, Man and Superman, Major Barbara, and Pygmalion.More

9. Kim

   Rudyard Kipling, Zohreh T. Sullivan

   Written in 1901, Kim is considered Kipling's finest work, and was a key factor in his being awarded the Nobel Prize.More

10. Shelley's Poetry and Prose

    Percy Bysshe Shelley, Neil Fraistat, Donald H. Reiman

    Second Edition

    This Second Edition is based on the authoritative texts chosen by the editors from their scholarly edition of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley.More

11. Beowulf: A Verse Translation

    Daniel Donoghue, Seamus Heaney

    Winner of the Whitbread Prize, Seamus Heaney’s translation "accomplishes what before now had seemed impossible: a faithful rendering that is simultaneously an original and gripping poem in its own right" (New York Times Book Review).More

12. Sense and Sensibility

    Jane Austen, Claudia L. Johnson

    Sense and Sensibility is Austen’s first published novel and the one now most scrutinized by historicist and feminist scholars, who offer new, complex readings of the work.More

13. Ben Jonson's Plays and Masques

    Ben Jonson, Richard L. Harp

    Second Edition

    This collection features three of Jonson's masterpieces: Volpone, Epicoene, and The Alchemist.More

14. The Waste Land

    T. S. Eliot, Michael North

    The text of Eliot’s 1922 masterpiece is accompanied by thorough explanatory annotations as well as by Eliot’s own knotty notes, some of which require annotation themselves.More

15. Hard Times

    Charles Dickens, Fred Kaplan

    Third Edition

    This text, that of the 1854 first edition, has been re-edited in light of recent scholarly findings. Annotations have been revised and expanded.More