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Fiction

1. Charlotte Temple

   Susanna Rowson, Marion L. Rust

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

2. The Brothers Karamazov

   Fyodor Dostoevsky, Susan McReynolds

   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

3. Uncle Tom's Cabin

   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

4. The Arabian Nights

   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

5. As I Lay Dying

   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

6. In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

   Daniyal Mueenuddin

   Finalist for the 2009 National Book Award in Fiction: “The rural rootedness and gentle humour of R.K. Narayan with the literary sophistication and stylishness of Jhumpa Lahiri.”—Financial TimesMore

7. The Essential Writings of Jonathan Swift

   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

8. The Garden of Last Days: A Novel

   Andre Dubus, III

   “So good, so damn compulsively readable, that I can hardly believe it.” —Stephen King, Entertainment WeeklyMore

9. Things Fall Apart

   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

10. Someone Knows My Name: A Novel

    Lawrence Hill

    "Wonderfully written...as in the slave narratives that inspired it, language is power."—Nancy Kline, New York Times Book ReviewMore

11. 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

12. The Last Chicken in America: A Novel in Stories

    Ellen Litman

    "[An] elegantly constructed web of stories about Russian-Jewish immigrants....Warm, true and original."—New York Times Book ReviewMore

13. 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

14. Fathers and Children

    Ivan Turgenev, Michael R. Katz

    Second Edition

    Michael R. Katz’s acclaimed translation of Turgenev’s greatest novel is again the basis for this Norton Critical Edition.More

15. Tolstoy's Short Fiction

    Leo Tolstoy, Michael R. Katz

    Second Edition

    Leo Tolstoy’s short works, like his novels, show readers his narrative genius, keen observation, and historical acumen—albeit on a smaller scale.More