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1. Crescent: A Novel

   Diana Abu-Jaber

   "Abu-Jaber's voluptuous prose features insights into the Arab American community that are wisely, warmly depicted."—San Francisco ChronicleMore

2. Things Fall Apart

   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

3. Little Women

   Louisa M. Alcott, Gregory Eiselein, Anne K Phillips

   This authoritative, accurate text of the first edition (1868–69) of Little Women is accompanied by textual variants and thorough explanatory annotations.More

4. Ragged Dick

   Horatio Alger, Jr., Hildegard Hoeller

   Ragged Dick; or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks is arguably the best known of Horatio Alger’s American rags-to-riches stories.More

5. Inferno

   Dante Alighieri, Michael Palma, Giuseppe Mazzotta

   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

6. Winesburg, Ohio

   Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. Modlin, Ray Lewis White

   Set against the backdrop of a fictional 1890s town, Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio depicts the not-so-simple lives of its residents as seen through the eyes of George Willard, a young and observant resident.More

7. The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology

   William L. Andrews, Minrose C. Gwin, Trudier Harris, Et Al.

   For nearly four centuries, the American South has been home to a vital literary tradition.More

8. St. Thomas Aquinas on Politics and Ethics

   St. 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

9. The Norton Book of Science Fiction

   Brian Attebery, Ursula K. LeGuin

10. Writing: A College Handbook

    Janet Atwill, James A. W. Heffernan, John E. Lincoln

    Fifth Edition

    Through four successful editions, Writing: A College Handbook’s positive approach has not only empowered students to write effectively, it has challenged students to consider why good writing matters.More

11. Northanger Abbey

    Jane Austen, Susan Fraiman

    Northanger Abbey, written in Jane Austen’s youth and posthumously published, is arguably her most mysterious, imaginative, and optimistic novel.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. Pride and Prejudice

    Jane Austen, Donald J. Gray

    Third Edition

    The text of Pride and Prejudice is the 1813 first edition text.More

14. Emma

    Jane Austen, Stephen M. Parrish

    Third Edition

    The text reprinted in this new edition of Austen’s comedic novel is based on the 1816 text, which has been carefully edited in light of later editions, including the Chapman edition.More

15. Persuasion

    Jane Austen, Patricia Meyer Spacks

    The text of this Norton Critical Edition is that of the first edition (dated 1818 but probably issued in late 1817), which was published posthumously.More