American Literature

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  1. Book ImageThe Feminine Mystique

    Betty Friedan, Kirsten Fermaglich, Lisa Fine

    The first student edition of Betty Friedan’s national best seller published in honor of its fiftieth anniversary. The Feminine Mystique forever changed America’s consciousness by defining “the problem that has no name.”More

  2. Book ImageThe Coquette and The Boarding School

    Hannah Webster Foster, Jennifer Harris, Bryan Waterman

    Hannah Webster Foster's two major Early American works with a wealth of primary materials are now available in a Norton Critical Edition.More

  3. Book ImageNathaniel Hawthorne's Tales

    Nathaniel Hawthorne, James McIntosh

    Second Edition

    Nathaniel Hawthorne’s best-loved tales are now available in a revised Norton Critical Edition.More

  4. Book ImageChronicle of the Narváez Expedition

    Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Ilan Stavans, David Frye

    This new Norton Critical Edition recounts the 1527–36 expedition of Cabeza de Vaca, the first Spanish explorer to cross North America.More

  5. Book ImageThe Marrow of Tradition

    Charles W. Chesnutt, Werner Sollors

    The Norton Critical Edition of this hugely influential novel gives readers the fullest possible sense of its historical background and critical assessment.More

  6. Book ImageBenjamin Franklin's Autobiography

    Benjamin Franklin, Joyce E. Chaplin

    New Edition

    The only edition of the celebrated Autobiography that includes the long-missing and recently identified “Wagon Letters.”More

  7. Book ImageCommon Sense and Other Writings

    Thomas Paine, J. M. Opal

    Thomas Paine often declared himself a citizen of the world. This Norton Critical Edition presents Paine and his writing within the transatlantic and global context of the revolutionary ideas and actions of his time.More

  8. Book ImageThe Conjure Stories

    Charles W. Chesnutt, Robert B. Stepto, Jennifer Rae Greeson

    Fourteen conjure tales by one of America’s most influential African American fiction writers.More

  9. Book ImageCane

    Jean Toomer, Rudolph P. Byrd, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

    Second Edition

    A masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance and a canonical work in both the American and the African American literary traditions, Cane is now available in a revised and expanded Norton Critical Edition.More

  10. Book ImageWieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist

    Charles Brockden Brown, Bryan Waterman

    The first gothic novel in America, Wieland (1798) is now available in a Norton Critical Edition.More

  11. Book ImageThe Blithedale Romance

    Nathaniel Hawthorne, Richard H. Millington

    New Edition

    This new Norton Critical Edition of Hawthorne’s innovative 1852 novel helps readers navigate and appreciate its elusive plot, powerful characters, and maddening narrator.More

  12. Book ImageCharlotte Temple

    Susanna Rowson, Marion L. Rust

    The best-selling Early American novel is now available in a Norton Critical Edition.More

  13. Book ImageUncle Tom's Cabin

    Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Ammons

    Second Edition

    One of the most important activist texts in American Literature is now available in a thoroughly updated and revised Norton Critical Edition.More

  14. Book ImageThe Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson, Wayne Franklin

    The first book to include Thomas Jefferson’s writings and writings about him—from his era and ours.More

  15. Book ImageAs I Lay Dying

    William Faulkner, Michael Gorra

    Long been recognized not only as one of William Faulkner’s greatest works, but also as the most accessible of his major novels.More

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