Adrienne Rich, Albert Gelpi, Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi
This Norton Critical Edition presents the work of one of America's foremost poets. It moves well beyond the scope of its predecessor, Adrienne Rich's Poetry (1975), in giving proper recognition to Rich's extraordinary achievements in both poetry and prose in recent years. The result is a judiciously edited, sensibly annotated volume ideally suited for classroom study of one of our most distinguished working writers.More
Edith Wharton, Candace Waid
The text of Wharton’s richly allusive Pulitzer Prize–winning 1921 novel
of desire and its implications in Old New York has been rigorously
annotated by a prominent Wharton scholar.More
Judith Fetterley, Marjorie Pryse
A vibrant tradition—long neglected—is brought back to readers in this generous and rich collection.More
L. M. Montgomery, Mary Henley Rubio, Elizabeth Waterston
Since its publication in 1908, Anne of Green Gables has been an enduring bestseller and arguably Canada’s most famous novel.More
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Margaret Reynolds
This Norton Critical Edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s 1856 verse-novel is based on Margaret Reynolds’ variorum edition, which the British Academy awarded the 1993 Rose Mary Crawshay Prize and which is reprinted here by special arrangement with the Ohio University Press.More
Kate Chopin, Margo Culley
Second Edition
This Second Edition of a perennial favorite in the Norton Critical Edition series represents an extensive revision of its predecessor.More
Margery Kempe, Lynn Staley
The text presented here remains as faithful to the original Middle
English as possible, without sounding archaic.More
Judith Lorber
In Breaking the Bowls, the sequel to Paradoxes of Gender, Judith Lorber shows the cracks, anomalies, and resistances that are breaking down the gendered social order in Western post-industrial societies and lays out how we can take this process further by deliberate degendering.More
Susanna Rowson, Marion L. Rust
The best-selling Early American novel is now available in a Norton Critical Edition.More
George L. Hicks
"The most extensive record available in English of the ugly story."—Elisabeth Rubinfein, New York NewsdayMore
Susan M. Felch, Donald V. Stump
Four centuries after her death, Elizabeth I remains a powerful and fascinating figure.More
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
Edith Wharton, Kristin O. Lauer, Cynthia Griffin Wolff
This Norton Critical Edition of Edith Wharton's celebrated novella is
based on the first edition, published by Charles Scribner's Sons in
1911.More
Frances Burney, Stewart J. Cooke
The text is that of the third edition text of this influential novel, which incorporates all of Burney’s changes.More
Betty Friedan, Anna Quindlen
The book that changed the consciousness of a country—and the world.More