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Theory & Criticism

1. Edmund Spenser's Poetry

   Edmund Spenser, Anne Lake Prescott, Andrew Hadfield

   Fourth Edition

   Edmund Spenser’s Poetry is now available in a revised and updated Norton Critical Edition.More

2. A Reader's Book of Days: Auspicious Births and Untimely Deaths, Bad Reviews and Bestsellers, Romances and Betrayals, Hoaxes and Scandals, and Other True Tales from the Lives and Works of Writers for Every Day of the Year

   Tom Nissley, Joanna Neborsky

   Candy for any book lover: an addictively readable day-by-day literary companion and guide from a former bookseller and eight-time Jeopardy! champion.More

3. Wordsworth's Poetry and Prose

   William Wordsworth, Nicholas Halmi

   The most accessible edition of Wordsworth’s poetry and prose, prepared to meet the needs of both students and scholars.More

4. 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

5. The Histories

   Herodotus, Walter Blanco, Jennifer Tolbert Roberts

   Second Edition

   Walter Blanco’s acclaimed translation of The Histories is now available in its entirety in this revised and expanded Norton Critical Edition.More

6. The Sufferings of Young Werther

   Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Stanley Corngold

   “Corngold’s new translation is of the very highest quality, punctiliously faithful to Goethe’s German and sensitive to gradations of style in this extraordinary, trail-blazing first novel.”
   —J. M. Coetzee, New York Review of BooksMore

7. The Annotated Brothers Grimm

   Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Maria Tatar, Et Al.

   The Bicentennial Edition

   Celebrate the 200th birthday of the Brothers Grimm stories with this lavish volume now richly expanded for a new generation.More

8. The Fourth Dimension of a Poem: and Other Essays

   M. H. Abrams, Harold Bloom

   A new collection of essays by the legendary literary scholar and critic.More

9. The Communist Manifesto

   Karl Marx, Frederic L. Bender

   Second Edition

   Karl Marx’s 1848 text is reframed in this revised Norton Critical Edition in the context of twenty-first-century theoretical debates, capitalist globalization, the information technology revolution, and contemporary struggles up to and including the 2011 “Arab Spring.”More

10. Julius Caesar

    William Shakespeare, S. P. Cerasano

    Shakespeare’s tragedy of one of the most famous assassinations in the world at an epoch-changing time in history.More

11. Pablo Neruda: Absence and Presence

    Pablo Neruda, Alastair Reid, Luis Poirot

    Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda wrote often about the natural world and the beloved objects he surrounded himself with.More

12. The English Bible, King James Version: The New Testament and The Apocrypha

    Gerald Hammond, Austin Busch

    Volume(s): 2

    A stunning work of scholarship, the Norton Critical Edition of The English Bible, King James Version, is the most accessible edition available.More

13. The English Bible, King James Version: The Old Testament

    Herbert Marks

    Volume(s): 1

    A stunning work of scholarship, the Norton Critical Edition of The English Bible, King James Version, is the most accessible edition available.More

14. The Marrow of Tradition

    Charles W. Chesnutt, Werner Sollors

    The Norton Critical Edition of this hugely influential novel gives readers the fullest possible sense of its historical background and critical assessment.More

15. A Journey with Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet

    Eavan Boland

    “Boland offers encouragement to women poets of the future. . . . Her vivid imagery will beguile many.”—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewMore