Herodotus, Walter Blanco, Jennifer Tolbert Roberts
Second Edition
Walter Blanco’s acclaimed translation of The Histories is now available in its entirety in this revised and expanded Norton Critical Edition.More
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Stanley Corngold
“Corngold’s new translation is of the very highest quality, punctiliously faithful to Goethe’s German and sensitive to gradations of style in this extraordinary, trail-blazing first novel.”
—J. M. Coetzee, New York Review of BooksMore
Karl Marx, Frederic L. Bender
Second Edition
Karl Marx’s 1848 text is reframed in this revised Norton Critical Edition in the context of twenty-first-century theoretical debates, capitalist globalization, the information technology revolution, and contemporary struggles up to and including the 2011 “Arab Spring.”More
Herbert Marks
Volume(s): 1
A stunning work of scholarship, the Norton Critical Edition of The English Bible, King James Version, is the most accessible edition available.More
Gerald Hammond, Austin Busch
Volume(s): 2
A stunning work of scholarship, the Norton Critical Edition of The English Bible, King James Version, is the most accessible edition available.More
Georg Büchner, Matthew Wilson Smith, Henry Schmidt
Few writers have transformed literature and theater so dramatically. Based on Henry J. Schmidt’s translations of The Hessian Messenger, Danton’s Death, Lenz, Leonce and Lena, and Woyzeck.More
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Susan McReynolds Oddo
Second Edition
The Second Edition of the Norton Critical Edition of The Brothers Karamazov is based on a significantly revised translation by Susan McReynolds.More
Husain Haddawy, Daniel Heller-Roazen, Muhsin Mahdi
This Norton Critical Edition includes twenty-eight tales from The Arabian Nights translated by Husain Haddawy on the basis of the oldest existing Arabic manuscript.More
Isaac Babel, Gregory Freidin, Peter Constantine
This Norton Critical Edition is based on Peter Constantine’s incomparable translations, which are introduced and annotated by the renowned Babel scholar Gregory Freidin.More
Ovid, Charles Martin
In his award-winning translation, Charles Martin combines fidelity to Ovid’s text with verse that catches the speed and liveliness of the original.More
Boethius, Douglas C. Langston
One of the most influential texts to come out of the late Middle Ages.More
Jonathan Swift, Claude Rawson, Ian Higgins
This Norton Critical Edition is the fullest single-volume collection of Jonathan Swift's writings, encompassing not only the major prose satires—A Tale of the Tub, Gulliver’s Travels, and A Modest Proposal—but also a large number of other works, including his most important poems and political writings. The texts are accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations by Ian Higgins, thirty illustrations, and a full introduction by Claude Rawson. This is an indispensable edition for scholar and student alike.More
Max Weber, Richard Swedberg
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is Max Weber’s most important work and, since its publication in 1904, has been widely considered the most important sociological study of the twentieth century.More
John P. Harrington
Second Edition
Modern and Contemporary Irish Drama is the ideal focal point for the study of Irish literature and culture and, because of its many great twentieth-century works, for the study of drama more generally.More
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