John Donne, Donald R. Dickson
“Donald Dickson's John Donne's Poetry is the best text of Donne now available. It is scrupulously edited, and equally useful for students and for scholars.”—Harold Bloom, Yale UniversityMore
Robert Browning, James F. Loucks, Andrew M. Stauffer
Second Edition
The Second Edition of this substantial collection of Browning’s poetry again reprints the texts of the seventeen-volume “Fourth and complete edition” (Smith, Elder), of which all but the final volume were approved by Browning before his death.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
Geoffrey Chaucer, Kathyrn L. Lynch
This Norton Critical Edition presents Chaucer’s four dream visions and selected shorter poems and is suitable for both beginning and advanced students.More
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
Franz Kafka, Stanley Corngold
In 1945, W. H. Auden remarked that Kafka stands in the same relation to his century as Shakespeare does to his—Kafka is the representative of the twentieth century, the poet who gives it its voice.More
Geoffrey Chaucer, Stephen Barney
This Norton Critical Edition of Chaucer’s masterpiece is based on Stephen Barney’s acclaimed text and is accompanied by a translation of its major source, Boccaccio’s Filostrato.More
William Langland, Elizabeth Robertson, Stephen H. A. Shepherd
Piers Plowman is one of the most significant works of medieval literature.More
Thomas Hardy, Phillip Mallett
Second Edition
This Second Edition reprints the text of the authoritative 1912 Macmillan Wessex Edition.More
Stephen Leacock, D. M. R. Bentley
Canada’s answer to Mark Twain and Charles Dickens, Stephen Leacock was a master of humor and characterization.More
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
James Joyce, Margot Norris
Dubliners is arguably the best-known and most influential collection of short stories written in English, and has been since its publication in 1914.More
Herman Melville, Hershel Parker, Mark Niemeyer
Second Edition
The text of The Confidence-Man reprinted here is again that of the first American edition (1857), slightly corrected.More
Theodore Dreiser, Donald Pizer
Third Edition
The text of the Third Edition is based on the 1900 Doubleday Page edition, with detailed annotations that reveal the author’s use of real people and places in Chicago and New York.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