Molière, Constance Congdon, Virginia Scott
Widely hailed as the founder of the modern French comedy, and known to be a gifted actor, playwright, and patron of fellow actors, Molière was a towering presence in seventeenth-century France—and the scourge of its political and religious Establishment.More
John Bunyan, Cynthia Wall
John Bunyan was a Baptist preacher and author with little education but much vision and purpose.More
Ellen Litman
"[An] elegantly constructed web of stories about Russian-Jewish immigrants....Warm, true and original."—New York Times Book ReviewMore
H. G. Wells, Stephen Arata
The Time Machine (1895) is H. G. Wells’s first published novel as well as his most enduring and influential work.More
Susan Bell
"Bell's prose is elegant and wonderfully readable in this artful guide."—Publishers WeeklyMore
John Keats, Jeffrey N. Cox
This Norton Critical Edition seeks to return Keats—one of the most beloved poets of the English language—to his cultural moment by tracking his emergence as a public poet.More
Ivan Turgenev, Michael R. Katz
Second Edition
Michael R. Katz’s acclaimed translation of Turgenev’s greatest novel is again the basis for this Norton Critical Edition.More
Leo Tolstoy, Michael R. Katz
Second Edition
Leo Tolstoy’s short works, like his novels, show readers his narrative genius, keen observation, and historical acumen—albeit on a smaller scale.More
Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Recchio
Elizabeth Gaskell, one of the nineteenth century’s most significant novelists, was widely held to be the social conscience of Great Britain during the Industrial Revolution.More
Henry D. Thoreau, William Rossi
Third Edition
This revised and expanded Third Edition adds three important post-Walden essays, "Slavery in Massachusetts," "Walking," and "Wild Apples," bringing the full scope of Thoreau's mature powers to twenty-first-century readers. The texts are accompanied by explanatory annotations, Thoreau's survey of Walden Pond, and the 1852 Walling map of Concord village and its environs.More
Linda H. Peterson, John C. Brereton
Twelfth Edition
Read by millions of students since it was first published in 1965, The Norton Reader is the bestselling collection of its kind.More
Stendhal, Susanna Lee, Robert M. Adams
Second Edition
Based again on Robert M. Adams’s highly regarded translation of Stendhal’s 1831 novel of ambition, love, and betrayal, this Second Norton Critical Edition of The Red and the Black is the most comprehensive and up-to-date edition available.More
Willa Cather, Sharon O'Brien
Willa Cather's masterful 1913 novel marks her return to the Nebraska of her youth, and to the stories of the immigrant settlers she had known during her childhood and teenage years in Red Cloud.More
Stephen Crane, Eric Carl Link, Donald Pizer
Fourth Edition
This Norton Critical Edition of Stephen Crane’s classic 1895 Civil War novel is again based on the first published edition, conservatively edited.More
Joseph Kelly
Second Edition
Less than half the price of full-length anthologies and more economical than most value editions, The Seagull Readers are a portable and inexpensive alternative to bulky anthologies.More