Herman Melville, Hershel Parker, Harrison Hayford
Second Edition
For this Sesquicentennial Norton Critical Edition, the Northwestern-Newberry text of Moby-Dick has been generously footnoted to include dozens of biographical discoveries, mainly from Hershel Parker's work on his two-volume biography of Melville.More
Frank Norris, Donald Pizer
Second Edition
The text of this edition presents, fully annotated, the 1899 First Edition text of McTeague, a significant example of American literary naturalism and a commentary on turn-of-the-century American cultural values.More
Edgar Allan Poe, G.R. Thompson
Edgar Allan Poe’s works, with their gothic and often obsessive themes,
have had a significant influence on American literature.More
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
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
Upton Sinclair, Clare Virginia Eby
The Jungle's influence has been extraordinary for a literary work. Upton Sinclair's 1906 landmark novel is widely credited with awakening the public fury that led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act (1906), a watershed in consumer protection and government legislation.More
Gertrude Stein, Marianne DeKoven
This Norton Critical Edition includes both Three Lives and Q.E.D., first published in 1909 and 1950, respectively.More
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
Henry D. Thoreau, William Rossi
Third Edition
This revised and expanded Third Edition adds three important post-Walden essays, "Slavery in Massachusetts," "Walking," and "Wild Apples," bringing the full scope of Thoreau's mature powers to twenty-first-century readers. The texts are accompanied by explanatory annotations, Thoreau's survey of Walden Pond, and the 1852 Walling map of Concord village and its environs.More
Mark Twain, Allison R. Ensor
This edition of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court reprints the text of the first American edition, approved by Clemens and published by his own company. Accompanying the text are thirteen of the original illustrations by Daniel Carter Beard, many of which are caricatures of well-known figures of the day. Annotations point out significant textual problems and variants, as well as explaining unfamiliar references within the text.More
Mark Twain, Beverly Lyon Clark
The text of this Norton Critical Edition is based, with typesetting errors corrected, on the first U.S. edition (1876), the most authoritative of the editions published in Twain’s lifetime.More
Mark Twain, Sidney E. Berger
Second Edition
Pudd’nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins contain Twain’s most overt treatment of the moral and societal implications of slavery in America.More
Mark Twain, Thomas Cooley
Third Edition
This perennially popular Norton Critical Edition reprints for the first time the definitive Iowa-California text of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, complete with all original illustrations by Edward Windsor Kemble and John Harley. The text is accompanied by explanatory annotations.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
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