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1. The Writings of St. Paul

   Saint Paul, Wayne A. Meeks, John T. Fitzgerald

   Second Edition

   The Second Edition of this perennially popular Norton Critical Edition is based on the Today’s New International Version of Paul’s letters, a new translation that is heralded for its inclusiveness and accuracy in representation of gender.More

2. Short Takes: Brief Encounters with Contemporary Nonfiction

   Judith Kitchen

   Invigorating creative nonfiction—short, but never slight—gathered by the co-editor of In Short and In Brief.More

3. The Selected Political Writings of John Locke

   John Locke, Paul E. Sigmund

   John Locke’s revolutionary writings created a sea change in political theory and, eventually, in liberal democracy in practice.More

4. In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction

   Lee Gutkind, Annie Dillard

   Twenty-five arresting selections from the groundbreaking journal that defined a genre.More

5. The Showings of Julian of Norwich

   Julian of Norwich, Denise N. Baker

   Julian of Norwich is among the most intriguing religious visionaries in Christian history.More

6. 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

7. Red Cavalry

   Isaac Babel, Nathalie Babel, Peter Constantine, Et Al.

   "Amazing not only as literature but as biography."—Richard Bernstein, The New York TimesMore

8. The Norton Book of Nature Writing

   John Elder, Robert Finch

   College Edition

   W. W. Norton is pleased to announce that The Norton Book of Nature Writing is now available in a paperback college edition.More

9. Emerson's Prose and Poetry

   Ralph Waldo Emerson, Saundra Morris, Joel Porte

   This new volume is the most comprehensive collection of Emerson’s writings available in a paperback edition.More

10. Darwin

    Charles Darwin, Philip Appleman

    Third Edition

    "The best Darwin anthology on the market" (Stephen Jay Gould, Harvard) has just become better, in this newly revised version of the now classic Norton Critical Edition, first published in 1970.More

11. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

    Harriet Jacobs, Frances Smith Foster, Nellie Y. McKay

    Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is the first full-length narrative written by a former woman slave in America.More

12. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African, Written by Himself

    Olaudah Equiano, Werner Sollors

    The text of Equiano’s narrative presented here is that of the 1789 first edition.More

13. The Book of Margery Kempe

    Margery Kempe, Lynn Staley

    The text presented here remains as faithful to the original Middle English as possible, without sounding archaic.More

14. Yeats's Poetry, Drama, and Prose

    William Butler Yeats, James Pethica

    This brand new collection, impeccably edited by James Pethica, presents a comprehensive selection of Yeats's major contributions in poetry, drama, prose fiction, autobiography, and criticism.More

15. In Brief: Short Takes on the Personal

    Mary Paumier Jones, Judith Kitchen

    An exciting new anthology by the editors of the popular In Short, about which Publishers Weekly said: "Even readers skeptical of short-attention-span publishing will find these shorts addictive."More