Susanna Rowson, Marion L. Rust
The best-selling Early American novel is now available in a Norton Critical Edition.More
Hazel Rose Markus, Paula M. L. Moya
A collection of new essays, written by a team of interdisciplinary authors, that gives a comprehensive introduction to race and ethnicity.
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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
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
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
Andre Dubus, III
“So good, so damn compulsively readable, that I can hardly believe it.” —Stephen King, Entertainment WeeklyMore
J. Ellen Gainor, Stanton Garner, Jr., Martin Puchner
Volume(s): 1 & 2
The most comprehensive and distinctive collection of its kind.More
Erick Kelemen
Textual Editing and Criticism: An Introduction addresses a gap in currently available materials for English and American literature teachers who bring textual editing and criticism into their courses.
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Ellen Litman
"[An] elegantly constructed web of stories about Russian-Jewish immigrants....Warm, true and original."—New York Times Book ReviewMore
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
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
Nella Larsen, Carla Kaplan
Nella Larsen is a central figure in African American, Modernist, and women’s literature.More