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The British Novel

1. Alice in Wonderland

   Lewis Carroll, Donald J. Gray

   Third Edition

   Newly discovered letters by Lewis Carroll, an expanded selection of diary excerpts, and a wealth of new biographical materials are some of the features of this revised Norton Critical Edition.More

2. The 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. Persuasion

   Jane Austen, Patricia Meyer Spacks

   Second Edition

   Jane Austen’s last complete novel is now available in a revised Norton Critical Edition. The volume emphasizes new trends in critical discourse, which have enormous importance for our understanding of Austen’s achievement.More

4. The Good Soldier

   Ford Madox Ford, Martin Stannard

   Second Edition

   Heralded by Graham Greene as “one of the finest novels of our century,” Ford Madox Ford’s 1915 modernist masterpiece of passion and deceit is now available in a revised and expanded Norton Critical Edition.More

5. Frankenstein

   Mary Shelley, J. Paul Hunter

   Second Edition

   The best-selling student edition on the market, now available in a Second Edition.More

6. Emma

   Jane Austen, George Justice

   Fourth Edition

   Jane Austen’s beloved comedic novel is now available in a revised and updated Norton Critical Edition.More

7. Charlotte Temple

   Susanna Rowson, Marion L. Rust

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

8. The Pilgrim's Progress

   John Bunyan, Cynthia Wall

   John Bunyan was a Baptist preacher and author with little education but much vision and purpose.More

9. The Time Machine

   H. G. Wells, Stephen Arata

   The Time Machine (1895) is H. G. Wells’s first published novel as well as his most enduring and influential work.More

10. Mary Barton

    Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Recchio

    Elizabeth Gaskell, one of the nineteenth century’s most significant novelists, was widely held to be the social conscience of Great Britain during the Industrial Revolution.More

11. Jacob's Room

    Virginia Woolf, Suzanne Raitt

    Jacob’s Room is Virginia Woolf’s experimental third novel, set in England during the halcyon days before World War I. The text reprinted here is the first British edition, which Woolf approved, and which retains her original layout, including paragraph spacing.More

12. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

    James Joyce, John Paul Riquelme

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is one of the twentieth century’s great coming-of-age novels.More

13. The Picture of Dorian Gray

    Oscar Wilde, Michael Patrick Gillespie

    Second Edition

    This Norton Critical Edition is the only edition available that includes both the 1890 Lippincott’s and the 1891 book versions of The Picture of Dorian Gray, allowing students to compare the two published versions with the editorial guidance of Michael Patrick Gillespie.More

14. The Return of the Native

    Thomas Hardy, Phillip Mallett

    Second Edition

    This Second Edition reprints the text of the authoritative 1912 Macmillan Wessex Edition.More

15. The Secret Garden

    Frances Hodgson Burnett, Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina

    Frances Hodgson Burnett was the highest paid and most widely read woman writer of her time, publishing more than fifty novels and thirteen plays.More