William Shakespeare, Gordon McMullan
Third Edition
The text, with few departures, is that of the First Quarto (1598) edition of the play.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
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
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
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
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
Lewis Carroll, Donald J. Gray
Second Edition
This Norton Critical Edition reprints the 1897 editions of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and the 1876 edition of The Hunting of the Snark.More
Henry James, S P. Rosenbaum
Second Edition
This revised and expanded Norton Critical Edition of The Ambassadors
again includes the author's preface as well as the most significant
variants of the three earlier editions of the novel published in
James's lifetime.More
Henry James, James W. Tuttleton
The text reprinted in this volume is based on an examination of the
five printed versions of The American (first published in 1877) which
appeared in James's lifetime, and it is preceded by his "Preface to the
New York Edition" (1907).More
Leo Tolstoy, George Gibian
This Second Norton Critical Edition of Leo Tolstoy’s epic novel is again based on the Louise and Aylmer Maude translation (originally published in 1918; revised with notes in 1939), which has never been
surpassed. This volume reprints the 1939 edition, which the editor has revised, making twenty-one textual changes and revising or adding forty-nine footnotes.More
L. M. Montgomery, Mary Henley Rubio, Elizabeth Waterston
Since its publication in 1908, Anne of Green Gables has been an enduring bestseller and arguably Canada’s most famous novel.More
Anton Chekhov, Laurence Senelick
Anton Chekhov revolutionized Russian theater through his inimitable portrayals of characters faced with complex moral dilemmas.More
Anton Chekhov, Ralph E. Matlaw
The thirty-four stories in this volume span Chekhov’s creative career.More
William Shakespeare, Ania Loomba
William Shakespeare’s great Roman tragedy of adultery amid political conflict is now available in a richly documented and illustrated Norton Critical Edition.More
John Henry Cardinal Newman, David J. DeLaura
The text of the Apologia reprinted in this volume is the definitive
text, embodying all of Newman's later changes, which reached its final
form about 1886. Extensive notes are provided.More