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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, Paul B. Armstrong
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Norton Critical Editions
This edition includes a newly edited text based on the 1902 edition. Textual History and Editing Principles provides an overview of the controversies and ambiguities surrounding Heart of Darkness. Included are background and source materials, and contemporary responses to the novella along with essays i ...Show more
House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (Contribution by); Elizabeth Ammons (Contribution by)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Norton Critical Editions Ser.
House of Mirth by Edith Wharton Born in 1862 into an exclusive New York society - against whose rigid mores she often rebelled - Edith Wharton bridged the literary worlds of two continents and two centuries in her rich and glamorous life. The House of Mirth, her tenth book, is the story of young Lily Ba ...Show more
Importance of Being Earnest by WILDE OSCAR
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Norton Critical Editions
The text of this new Norton Critical Edition of Oscar Wilde's most famous play is the established three-act version. It is accompanied by explanatory annotations and by an appendix of excised portions. "Backgrounds" includes essays on Wilde and the 1890s by prominent cultural critics. Contemporary revie ...Show more
In Memoriam by Alfred Lord Tennyson; Erik Gray (Editor)
Category: Poetry | Series: Norton Critical Editions Ser.
As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and ot ...Show more
In Memoriam, 3rd Norton Critical Edition by Alfred Tennyson; Erik Gray (Editor)
Category: Classic | Series: Norton Critical Editions Ser.
This Norton Critical Edition includes: The Eversley Edition text of the poem, accompanied by Erik Gray's preface, full introduction, and detailed explanatory footnotes. One illustration. A generous selection (new to the Third Edition) of background materials on In Memoriam's subject, Arthur Henry H ...Show more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Norton Critical Editions
"For the classroom and for the general reader, there's no better way to experience the context in which Jane Eyre was written, illuminating modern commentary, and the novel itself in an authoritative text." Fred kaplan, Queens College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Norton Critical Editions
The novel is fully annotated and is accompanied by Hardy's map of Wessex and a plan of late Victorian Oxford (the Christminster of the novel). The textual history of Jude the Obscure-including an account of the surviving manuscript showing Hardy's major change of intention during its composition, of the ...Show more
Keats's Poetry and Prose by John Keats
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Norton Critical Editions
This Norton Critical Edition seeks to return Keats to his cultural moment by tracking his emergence as a public poet. Readers can trace the poems through letters, reviews and related material chonologically interleaved with the texts themselves. This edition offers an introduction, headnotes, annotation ...Show more
King Lear by William Shakespeare
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Norton Critical Editions
This Norton Critical Edition is based on the Folio edition of "King Lear". The editor has interpolated the best-known and most-often discussed passages from Quarto I as is fully explained in "A Note on the Text" and the annotations. "Sources" helps readers navigate "King Lear's" rich history and include ...Show more
METAMORPHOSIS by FRANZ KAFKA
Category: Fiction | Series: Norton Critical Editions
This "Norton Critical Edition" contains the 1915 edition of Kafka's "The Metamorphosis". Translated by Stanley Corngold, the novella is fully annotated and is accompanied by selected textual variants. The text presents Kafka's letters and diary entries, illuminating the creative process behind the story ...Show more
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Category: Plays & Scripts | Series: Norton Critical Editions
The Norton Critical Edition is again based on the First Folio (1623), the only authoritative text of the play. The volume includes a revised introduction and new annotations and textual notes. The Second Edition also includes the innovative feature "The Actors' Gallery," which presents famous actors and ...Show more
Middle English Romances by Stephen H. A. Shepherd (Editor)
Category: Fiction | Series: Norton Critical Editions Ser.
The texts of the seven romances included--Havelok, Ywain and Gawain, Sir Orfeo, Sir Launfal, The Awntyrs off Arthure at the Terne Wathelyne, The Weddyng of Syr Gawen and Dame Ragnell, and The Sege off Melayne--are complete, authoritative (rendered from the best manuscripts), and comprehensively glossed ...Show more