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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
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
COMMUNIST MANIFESTO by MARX KARL
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Norton Critical Editions Ser.
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." Simultaneously extolled in its day ...Show more
Crime and Punishment (Norton Critical Edition) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Michael R. Katz)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Norton Critical Editions Ser.
"Mesmerizingly good . . . the best, truest translation of Dostoevsky's masterpiece into English. It's a magnificent, almost terrifying achievement of translation, one that makes its predecessors, however worthy, seem safe and polite." --Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Monthly
DRACULA Norton Critical edition by STOKER BRAM
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Norton Critical Editions Ser.
In 1462, Vlad Dracula returns from a victory against the Turks to find his wife Elisabeta committed suicide after his enemies reported his death. The priest tells him that his wife's soul is damned to Hell for committing suicide. Enraged, Dracula desecrates the chapel and renounces God, declaring he wil ...Show more
Dracula Norton Critical Edition 2E by Stoker Bram
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Norton Critical Editions Ser.
This Norton Critical Edition includes: The first edition of the novel, published byArchibald Constable in London in 1897 and chosen by the editors in order to give readers-insofar as such a thing is possible-a more historically authentic reading experience than has been generally available. Arcane word ...Show more
Dubliners by James Joyce; Margot Norris
Category: Other Stationery | Series: Norton Critical Editions Ser.
With an essay by J. I. M. Stewart. 'Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears ... But now it sounded to me like the name of some maleficent and sinful being. It filled me with fear, and yet I longed to be nearer to it ...Show more