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
Thomas Jefferson, Wayne Franklin
The first book to include Thomas Jefferson’s writings and writings about him—from his era and ours.More
Jacob Riis, Hasia R. Diner
How the Other Half Lives occupies a premier place on a small list of American books—along with Uncle Tom’s Cabin, The Jungle, Silent Spring, The Feminine Mystique, and Unsafe at Any Speed—that changed public opinion, influenced public policy, and left an indelible mark on history.More
Mary Wollstonecraft, Deidre Shauna Lynch
Third Edition
Arguably the most original book of the eighteenth century, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is a pioneering feminist work.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
Susan M. Felch, Donald V. Stump
Four centuries after her death, Elizabeth I remains a powerful and fascinating figure.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
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
Alexis de Tocqueville, Isaac Kramnick, Henry Reeves
The Norton Critical Edition presents Tocqueville’s classic text in the Henry Reeves translation.More
Saint Paul, Wayne A. Meeks, John T. Fitzgerald
Second Edition
The Second Edition of this perennially popular Norton Critical Edition is based on the Today’s New International Version of Paul’s letters, a new translation that is heralded for its inclusiveness and accuracy in representation of gender.More
William Langland, Elizabeth Robertson, Stephen H. A. Shepherd
Piers Plowman is one of the most significant works of medieval literature.More
Joseph Conrad, Paul B. Armstrong
Fourth Edition
The Fourth Edition is again based on Robert Kimbrough’s meticulously re-edited text.More
John Locke, Paul E. Sigmund
John Locke’s revolutionary writings created a sea change in political theory and, eventually, in liberal democracy in practice.More
Elizabeth Gaskell, Alan Shelston
A revolutionary social and political commentary, North and South solidified Gaskell’s place in the company of Victorian England’s finest novelists.More