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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen; Donald Gray; Mary Favret (Editor)
Category: Education | Series: Norton Critical Editions Ser.
Jane Austen founded the classic novel genre of manners and romance in provincial England. Her most famous novel is Pride and Prejudice or women. It is widely considered to be a masterpiece of world literature. Many famous authors, including Sir Walter Scott, W. Somerset Maugham, and Virginia Woolf have ...Show more
Red and the Black ??? by STENDHAL
Category: Fiction | Series: Norton Critical Editions
This edition of "The Red and the Black" is based on Robert M. Adams' highly regarded translation of Stendhal's 1831 novel of ambition, love and betrayal. An extensively revised backgrounds and contexts section provides geographical and political insights into France at the time and places the novel in t ...Show more
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare; Gordon McMullan (Editor)
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Norton Critical Editions Ser.
by William ShakespeareDownloadin EPUB format, also available for Kindle or in PDFRomeo and Juliet is a tragic play written early in the career of William Shakespeare about two teenage "star-cross'd lovers" whose untimely deaths ultimately unite their feuding households. It was among Shakespeare's most p ...Show more
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY NORTON CRITICAL EDITION by JANE AUSTEN
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Norton Critical Editions
"Sense and Sensibility" is Jane Austen's first published novel, and the one now most closely scrutinised by historicist and feminist scholars, who offer new, complex readings of the work. The text is that of the 1813 second edition ( the origins of which can be traced back to 1795). The text is fully an ...Show more
Short Stories by A. P. Chekhov
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Norton Critical Editions
They present a wide spectrum of comic and serious themes and a variety of techniques. (His short novels, available in another Norton volume, Seven Short Novels by Chekhov, have been omitted.) Two of the stories have been translated for this edition by Professor Matlaw; the other translations, by Constan ...Show more
Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Category: Fiction | Series: Norton Critical Editions Ser.
Pearson English Readers bring language learning to life through the joy of reading. Well-written stories entertain us, make us think, and keep our interest page after page. Pearson English Readers offer teenage and adult learners a huge range of titles, all featuring carefully graded language to mak ...Show more
The Art of War - Authoritative Text, Interpretations by Michael Nylan (Edited and Translated by); Sun Tzu
Category: Business | Series: Norton Critical Editions Ser.
This Norton Critical Edition includes: The new and internationally acclaimed translation by Michael Nylan, accompanied by her detailed explanatory footnotes. A richly informative introduction by Michael Nylan. Fourteen illustrations. Seven interpretative essays on The Art of War's central themes ...Show more
The Awakening - The authoritative text by Kate Chopin
Category: unmapped | Series: Norton Critical Editions
The Bhagavad Gita by Gavin Flood; Charles Martin (Translator); Charles Martin
Category: Religion | Series: Norton Critical Editions Ser.
The Bhagavad Gita, the "Song of the Lord," is an ancient Hindu scripture about virtue presented as a dialogue between Krishna, an incarnation of God, and the warrior Arjuna on the eve of a great battle over succession to the throne. This new verse translation of the classic Sanskrit text combines the sk ...Show more
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Category: Fiction | Series: Norton Critical Editions
This second edition is based on a significantly revised translation by Susan McReynolds. It is accompanied by a detailed introduction, a pronunciation and explanation key for the novel's main characters, and greatly revised and expanded explanatory annotations.
The Canterbury Tales: Fifteen Tales and the General Prologue by Geoffrey Chaucer
Category: Classics | Series: Norton Critical Editions
The most admired of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales are presented here in the original language but with spelling and annotations for modern readers. Sources and background information are included for the General Prologue and for most of the tales, enabling students to understand them in the light of releva ...Show more
The Classic Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar (ed.)
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Norton Critical Editions Ser.
Fairy tales shape our cultures and enrich our imaginations; their narrative stability and cultural durability are incontestable. This Norton Critical Edition collects seven different tale types, including multicultural versions and literary rescriptings. Along with the introductions and annotations by M ...Show more