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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
Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Norton Critical Editions
Renaissance England's great tragedy of intellectual overreaching is as relevant and unsettling today as it was when first performed. This edition provides newly edited texts of both the 1604 (A-Text) and 1616 (B-Text) versions of the play, with detailed explanatory annotations. Included are a selection ...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
Frankenstein - norton critical edition by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Norton Critical Editions
This extensively revised Norton Critical Edition includes material that conveys the enduring global conversation about Frankenstein. The text of the 1818 first edition is accompanied by a new preface, explanatory annotations and three supporting sections. Among the new inclusions are studies on the nove ...Show more
GREAT EXPECTATIONS NORTON CRITICAL EDITION by Charles Dickens; Edgar Rosenberg
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Norton Critical Editions Ser.
'Hold your noise!' cried a terrible voice, as a man started up from among the graves at the side of the church porch. 'Keep still, you little devil, or I'll cut your throat!' So begins Charles Dickens's 1861 bildungsroman, the story of the orphan Pip who is catapulted from the desolate Kent marshes of ...Show more
George Bernard Shaw's Plays by George Bernard Shaw; Sandie Byrne
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Norton Critical Editions Ser.
Each play is fully annotated. "Contexts and Criticism" features all-new material on the author and his work, from traditional critical readings to more theorized approaches, among them essays on Shaw's Fabianism and his alleged feminism.? Contributors include Leon Hugo, Sally Peters, Tracy C. Davis, Joh ...Show more
Gulliver's Travels: Based on the 1726 Text : Contexts, Criticism by Jonathan Swift
Category: Classics | Series: Norton Critical Editions
It is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations. "Contexts" collects materials that influenced Swift's writing of the novel, as well as documents that suggest its initial reception, including Swift's correspondence, Alexander Pope's poems on Gulliver's Travels, and relevant passages from Gargantua ...Show more
Hamlet - Norton Critical Edition 2nd Ed by William Shakespeare; Robert S. Miola (Editor)
Category: Education | Series: Norton Critical Editions Ser.
"A perfect volume to initiate majors into the discipline and delight of carefully examining presumptions, priorities, language, and structures of both primary and secondary texts." --Stephen R. Honeygosky, University of PittsburghRead by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critic ...Show more
Hamlet - Norton critical edition by William Shakespeare
Category: Education | Series: Norton Critical Editions
Based on the Second Quarto (1604-05), this all-new Norton Critical Edition is accompanied by explanatory annotations and appendices with passages from the First Quarto (1603) and the Folio (1623). The introduction considers the tragedy as it has taken shape in the theatre, in criticism and in various cu ...Show more