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A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Dafoe; Paula R. Backsheider
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Norton Critical Editions Ser.
The plague of 1665 was followed by the Great Fire of London in 1666: great disasters evoking great responses. Those events re-fashioned the London landscape, and Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year re-fashioned English literature.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce; John Paul Riquelme; Hans Walter Gabler (Editor); Walter Hettche (Editor)
Category: Self | Series: Norton Critical Editions Ser.
Playful and experimental, James Joyce's autobiographical A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Manis a vivid portrayal of emotional and intellectual development. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Seamus Deane. The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childho ...Show more
Adrienne Rich - Poetry and Prose by Adrienne Rich; Albert Gelpi; Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi; Brett C. Millier
Category: Gift | Series: Norton Critical Editions Ser.
"I do use your edition of Rich each time I teach my women writers course. It's essential " --JOELLEN DELUCIA, Central Michigan University
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll; Donald J. Gray (Editor)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Norton Critical Editions Ser.
William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world's most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly abridged and remastered stories are now available to download for the first time. No ...Show more
Anton Chekhov's Selected Plays by Anton Chekhov
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Norton Critical Editions
This Norton Critical Edition includes five of Chekhov's major plays-Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard-and three early one-act farces that inform his later work-The Bear, The Wedding, and The Celebration. Laurence Senelick's masterful translations closely preserve Ch ...Show more
Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
Category: Biography | Series: Norton Critical Editions
This newly edited Norton Critical Edition includes an introduction explaining the history of the Autobiography. The text, written during the most eventful years of Benjamin Franklin's life (1771-1790), is accompanied by new and expanded annotations, a map, an illustration and facsimiles. "Contexts" offe ...Show more
Beowulf : A Verse Translation by Seamus (EDT) Seamus (TRN); Heaney Daniel (EDT); Heaney Donoghue
Category: Fiction | Series: Norton Critical Editions
Beowulf - A Verse Translation - Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism by Seamus Heaney (Foreword by); Daniel Donoghue
Category: Classic | Series: Norton Critical Editions Ser.
"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 "Excellent ancillary materials in this critical edition make a potentially alienating text and culture accessible and engaging." ...Show more
Blake's Poetry and Designs by William Blake; Mary Lynn Johnson; John E. Grant
Category: Classics | Series: Norton Critical Editions Ser.
In addition to a broad selection of the poems, the volume includes over 100 images (16 in color), emphasizing the centrality of pictorial representations to Blake's verse. Biographical context is provided through dozens of excerpts from Blake's notebook, letters, marginalia, and other writings. "Critici ...Show more
Bleak House - An Authorative and Annotated Text Illustrations - A Note on the Text Genesis and Composition Backgrounds - Criticism by Charles Dickens; George Ford; Sylvere Monod
Category: Classic | Series: Norton Critical Editions Ser.
"Backgrounds" offers all of Dickens' correspondence about Bleak House as well as contextual materials that document the Victorian controversy over pollution, a theme central to the novel, and present contemporary attitudes toward the government, the courts, and the police, to enhance the setting of the ...Show more
Byron's Poetry and Prose by Lord George Gordon Byron
Category: Poetry | Series: Norton Critical Editions
Presenting an extensive selection of Byron's poetry, letters and journal entries in chronological clusters, this "Norton Critical Edition" allows readers to see the changes that took place in his writing in the context of the places he lived and his fame, exile and travels. The material in the criticism ...Show more
CANDIDE by VOLTAIRE
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Norton Critical Editions
"Candide" is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds." On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth-century classic is actually a savage, satiric thrust at the phi ...Show more