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1. Candide

   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

2. Tess of the D'Urbervilles

   Thomas Hardy, Scott Elledge

   Third Edition

   This Third Edition of Tess of the D'Urbervilles introduces the highly praised 1983 Clarendon text edited by Juliet Grindle and Simon Gatrell.More

3. Piers Plowman: An Alliterative Verse Translation

   William Langland, Judith H. Anderson, Elizabeth D. Kirk, Et Al.

   A translation of the 14th century poem, which offers a picture of society in the late Middle Ages on the threshold of the early modern world.More

4. The House of Mirth

   Edith Wharton, Elizabeth Ammons

   This Norton Critical Edition of Edith Wharton's quintessential novel of the Gilded Age reprints the Scribner's magazine text of 1905, including the eight original illustrations.More

5. David Copperfield

   Charles Dickens, Jerome H. Buckley

   This Norton Critical Edition reprints the original 1850 text of Dickens’ most autobiographical novel, and his own personal favorite, including all of the line drawings by Phiz.More

6. The Praise of Folly and Other Writings

   Desiderius Erasmus, Robert M. Adams

   This Norton Critical Edition provides a wide selection of Erasmus’s writings, translated from the Latin into fresh, modern English.More

7. Modern Poems: An Introduction to Poetry

   Richard Ellmann, Robert O'Clair

   Second Edition

   This Second Edition is a thorough, thoughtful revision of the acclaimed Modern Poems.More

8. Crime and Punishment

   Fyodor Dostoevsky, George Gibian

   Third Edition

   Jessie Coulson’s translation provides the text for the Third Edition of this acclaimed Norton Critical Edition.More

9. English Romanticism

   Marilyn Gaull

   The English Romantic period—when, as Wordsworth wrote, "the whole earth/The beauty wore of promise"—was also a time in which many of our contemporary attitudes, conventions, and institutions originated. The present book explores, in fascinating depth, the context given by human beings of the time to what its writers called "the spirit of the age."More

10. St. Thomas Aquinas on Politics and Ethics

    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

11. Rousseau's Political Writings: Discourse on Inequality, Discourse on Political Economy, On Social Contract

    Jean Jacques Rousseau, Julia Conaway Bondanella, Alan Ritter

    This Norton Critical Edition includes the three most important of Rousseau’s political writings: Discourse on Inequality, Discourse on Political Economy, and On Social Contract.More

12. Joseph Andrews and Shamela and Related Writings

    Henry Fielding, Homer Goldberg

    This Norton Critical Edition reprints the authoritative Wesleyan text of Joseph Andrews, edited by Martin Battestin.More

13. The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces

    Maynard Mack, Bernard M. W. Knox, John C. McGalliard, Et Al.

    Fifth Continental Edition

    A selection of Western literature containing only works written originally in the ancient and modern foreign languages.More

14. Dead Souls

    Nikolai Gogol, George Gibian

    Few literary works have been so variously interpreted as Nikolai Gogol’s enduring comic masterpiece, Dead Souls.More

15. Far from the Madding Crowd

    Thomas Hardy, Robert C. Schweik

    This Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1912 Wessex edition, emended to correct errors which have crept into the text from the manuscript onward.More