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This new Norton Critical Edition of Hawthorne's innovative 1852 novel helps readers navigate and appreciate its elusive plot, powerful characters, and maddening narrator.

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.

The text is that of the third edition text of this influential novel, which incorporates all of Burney's changes.

Robert M. Adams's superb translation of Machiavelli's best-known work is again the basis for this Norton Critical Edition.

This edition of "the most modern of eighteenth-century novels" reprints the text of the first edition of the volumes of Tristram Shandy as they appeared from December 1759 to January 1767, including the two illustrations by Hogarth.

While millions face hunger, malnutrition, and starvation, the world's population is increasing by over 225,000 people per day, 80 million per year.

This Norton Critical Edition of Edith Wharton's quintessential novel of the Gilded Age reprints the Scribner's magazine text of 1905, including the eight original illustrations.

This Norton Critical Edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's most widely read novel appears during the bicentennial anniversary year of his birth.

This Norton Critical Edition of one of Shakespeare's earliest and best-loved comedies is based on the First Folio (1623).

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

The text of this revised edition of Tolstoy's novel is based upon the 1939 translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude. The editor has made several textual changes and has revised and added to the footnotes. New critical material has been added to this edition, reflecting current ideas.

How the Other Half Lives occupies a premier place on a small list of American books-along with Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Jungle, Silent Spring, The Feminine Mystique, and Unsafe at Any Speed-that changed public opinion, influenced public policy, and left an indelible mark on history.

Helps readers navigate "King Lear's" history and includes nine primary sources from which Shakespeare borrowed in creating his play, along with two additional likely sources. This title discusses the best-known and most-often discussed passages from Quarto I. It provides thirteen critical interpretations, and three adaptations and responses.

Twenty-nine poets writing from the 1603 ascension of James I, the first Stuart King, and the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, are included in this Norton Critical Edition.

The text is unabridged, with original spelling and extensive, easy-to-use marginal glosses and footnotes.

This brand new collection, impeccably edited by James Pethica, presents a comprehensive selection of Yeats's major contributions in poetry, drama, prose fiction, autobiography, and criticism.

This Norton Critical Edition provides a wide selection of Erasmus's writings, translated from the Latin into fresh, modern English.

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

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.

This Norton Critical Edition of a Dickens favorite reprints the 1846 text, the last edition of the novel substantially revised by Dickens and the one that most clearly reflects his authorial intentions.

This Norton Critical Edition restores the full title to the 1771 novel and emphasises the growing recognition of Smollett as a major British author.

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."

This new volume is the most comprehensive collection of Emerson's writings available in a paperback edition.

This Norton Critical Edition includes:166 poems spanning the range of Cummings's career, selections of his prose and dramatic writing, twelve paintings and sketches, and three facsimiles of his drafts-the first ever annotated and cross-genre collection of his work aimed at student readers.Annotations, headnotes and a thorough introduction by Milton A. Cohen, along with an essay by Cohen chronicling the development of Cummings's idiosyncratic style.Four contemporary reviews and six critical essays-by Randall Jarrell, Edmund Wilson, Isabelle Alfandary and Michael Webster, among others-prefaced by an overview.Comparative studies of two poems-featuring five different responses to each-designed to promote classroom discussion.A chronology, a selected bibliography and an index of the poems.

This Norton Critical Edition includes:The first edition of the novel (1859) accompanied by twenty-seven illustrations, from original images by Halbot Knight Browne ("Phiz") to cartoons from The Simpsons.An expansive introduction and detailed explanatory annotations by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst.Thematically organised contextual materials designed to promote classroom discussion. Topics include "Dickens on France and the French", "Revolution and Aftermath", "Living Graves", "Learning French", "The Composition of A Tale of Two Cities" and "Theatrical Versions".Fourteen major critical assessments of A Tale of Two Cities: five contemporary reviews and nine modern essays.A chronology and a selected bibliography.

The great English Renaissance tragedy-violent, powerful, unforgettable-in a freshly edited and annotated student edition.

"A man is the sum of his misfortunes." -William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"Accomplishes what before now had seemed impossible: a faithful rendering that is simultaneously an original and gripping poem in its own right." -New York Times Book Review

This Norton Critical Edition includes:An expanded translation from the Akkadian by Benjamin R. Foster based on new discoveries, adding lines throughout the world's oldest epic masterpiece.Benjamin R. Foster's full introduction and expanded explanatory annotations.Eleven illustrations.Analogues from the Sumerian and Hittite narrative traditions along with "The Gilgamesh Letter," a parody of the epic enjoyed by Mesopotamian schoolchildren during the first millennium BCE.Essays by Thorkild Jacobsen, William L. Moran, Susan Ackerman, and Andrew R. George, and a poem by Hillary Major.A Glossary of Proper Names and a Selected Bibliography.