Chinua Achebe, Francis Abiola Irele
Chinua Achebe’s tragic novel of pre-colonial Igbo society was a major literary and cultural event when it was published in 1958.More
Dante Alighieri, Giuseppe Mazzotta, Michael Palma
This Norton Critical Edition of Dante’s masterpiece is based on Michael Palma’s verse translation, which is acclaimed for its elegant rendering of Dante’s triple-rhyme scheme into contemporary English.More
Saint Thomas Aquinas, Paul E. Sigmund
St. Thomas Aquinas on Politics and Ethics contains translations of
carefully chosen and central selections from The Summa Against the
Gentiles, On Kingship or The Governance of Rulers, and The Summa of
Theology.More
Isaac Babel, Nathalie Babel, Peter Constantine, Et Al.
"Amazing not only as literature but as biography."—Richard Bernstein, The New York TimesMore
Isaac Babel, Gregory Freidin, Peter Constantine
This Norton Critical Edition is based on Peter Constantine’s incomparable translations, which are introduced and annotated by the renowned Babel scholar Gregory Freidin.More
Honore de Balzac, Peter Brooks, Burton Raffel
The text is that of Burton Raffell’s acclaimed 1994 translation.More
Giovanni Boccaccio, Peter E. Bondanella, Mark Musa
This volume contains twenty-one of the hundred novelle that comprise Boccaccio’s masterpiece.More
Boethius, Douglas C. Langston
One of the most influential texts to come out of the late Middle Ages.More
Meg Bogin
An introduction to the women poets of 12th-century Provence and a collection of their poems.More
Georg Büchner, Matthew Wilson Smith, Henry Schmidt
Few writers have transformed literature and theater so dramatically. Based on Henry J. Schmidt’s translations of The Hessian Messenger, Danton’s Death, Lenz, Leonce and Lena, and Woyzeck.More
Anthony Caputi
This Norton Critical Edition presents some of the most important voices in modern drama and, through the inclusion of supporting materials, places each play in its proper intellectual, artistic, and historical context.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
Miguel de Cervantes, Diana de Armas Wilson, Burton Raffel
The text reprinted here is based on award-winning translator Burton
Raffel’s masterful translation of Don Quijote, which is consistent,
fluid, and modeled closely on the original Spanish.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