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"Celebrated in the Renaissance as the foremost stylist of Italian prose, Boccaccio has seldom met his match in English translation...Wayne Rebhorn's fluid and dynamic rendition hits the mark on every page." -William J. Kennedy, Cornell University

This third Norton Critical Edition of Hardy's last novel has been revised to reflect the breadth of responses it has received over the last fifteen years.

Anonymously published in 1554, Lazarillo de Tormes remains a centrepiece of Renaissance literature and is arguably the most popular example of the picaresque novel.

Hamlet, Shakespeare's most famous play, is now available in an all-new, illustrated Norton Critical Edition.

This Norton Critical Edition of Solomon Northup's harrowing autobiography is based on the 1853 first edition. It is accompanied by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s introduction and detailed explanatory footnotes.

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

This much-anticipated Norton Critical Edition of Shakespeare's best-known play is based on the Second Quarto, widely agreed to be the most authoritative early text.

Candide has been delighting readers since 1759 with its satiric wit, provocations and warnings.

"An excellent collection of critical and social commentary that will help to make Dickens' image of Victorian England meaningful to all students."-John Howard Wilson, Dakota Wesleyan University

This Norton Critical Edition includes thirty of Guy de Maupassant's best short stories centring on war, the supernatural and French life, with an introduction and explanatory footnotes.

Jane McAuliffe introduces the Qur'an as a living scripture, preparing readers for an informed encounter with the text.

Magnificent and strange, Pierre is a richly allusive novel mirroring both antebellum America and Herman Melville's own life.

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 the world's first major work of literary criticism is based on James Hutton's acclaimed translation. The text and explanatory and glossarial notes represent the work of the accomplished Hellenists James Hutton and Michelle

For this Sesquicentennial Norton Critical Edition, the Northwestern-Newberry text of Moby-Dick has been generously footnoted to include dozens of biographical discoveries, mainly from Hershel Parker's work on his two-volume biography of Melville.

The Time Machine (1895) is H. G. Wells's first published novel as well as his most enduring and influential work.

This Second Edition of a perennial favorite in the Norton Critical Edition series represents an extensive revision of its predecessor.

This Norton Critical Edition brings research into this beloved poet's body of work completely up to date.

One of the most important activist texts in American literature is now available in a thoroughly updated and revised Norton Critical Edition.

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.

The text of this Second Edition of one of Henry James's most important novels is that of the New York Edition (1908).

Willa Cather's masterful 1913 novel marks her return to the Nebraska of her youth, and to the stories of the immigrant settlers she had known during her childhood and teenage years in Red Cloud.

Jessie Coulson's translation provides the text for the Third Edition of this acclaimed Norton Critical Edition.

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is the first full-length narrative written by a former woman slave in America.

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.

"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

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

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.

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 of arguably the greatest work of political theory written in the English language contains the bulk of Hobbes's treatise, including all chapters except those of interest primarily to professional historical scholars.