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The Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allen Poe; G. R. Thompson
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Norton Critical Editions Ser.
"Backgrounds and Contexts" includes fifty-seven carefully chosen documents that illuminate Poe's prolific but short career, among them reviews, prefaces, and correspondence by Poe as well as thematic pieces dealing with Transcendentalism and alternative romanticism, sciences of the mind, sensation ficti ...Show more
The Sufferings of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Category: Fiction | Series: Norton Critical Editions
A masterpiece of the European imagination, The Sufferings of Young Werther is the classic sturm und drang tale of youthful angst and tragedy. The acclaimed translator Stanley Corngold brings passion and precision to Goethe's timeless novel of obsessive love and madness in this magnificent new rendition. ...Show more
The Tale of Genji, Norton Critical Editions, 1st Edition by Shikibu Murasaki; Dennis Washburn (Editor)
Category: Fiction | Series: Norton Critical Editions Ser.
This Norton Critical Edition includes: Dennis Washburn's acclaimed and unabridged translation of Murasaki Shikibu's eleventh-century literary masterpiece, widely considered the world's first novel. Editorial matter by Dennis Washburn. Fourteen background selections--from the eleventh-century The ...Show more
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
Category: Classics | Series: Norton Critical Editions
It is accompanied by "A Note on the Text" and detailed explanatory annotations. "Sources and Contexts" provides three possible analogues to Shakespeare's controversial, high-spirited play from Ovid's Metamorphoses, George Gascoigne's "Supposes," and "A Merry Jest of a Shrewd and Curst Wife Lapped in Mor ...Show more
The Waste Land : Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism by Michael (EDT) T. S.; North Eliot
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Norton Critical Editions
To the Lighthouse: A Norton Critical Edition by Virginia Woolf
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Norton Critical Editions Ser.
This Norton Critical Edition includes: The American edition of the novel, first published by Harcourt Brace in 1927, introduced and annotated by Margaret Homans. A 1924-28 chronology of To the Lighthouse's composition, revision, publication, and reception. A rich selection of background materials, them ...Show more
Troilus and Criseyde by CHAUCER, GEOFFREY
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Norton Critical Editions
The editor's lucid introduction, marginal glosses, and explanatory annotations make Troilus and Criseyde easily accessible to students with no prior knowledge of Chaucer or Middle English. Also included is Robert Henryson's Testament of Cresseid, the poignant "sequel" to Troilus and Criseyde from fiftee ...Show more
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Category: Classic | Series: Norton Critical Editions
In the nineteenth century, Uncle Tom's Cabin sold more copies than any book in the world except the Bible. Upon publication, it was quickly translated into thirty-seven languages and has never gone out of print. It remains a controversial and complex text that, along with David Walker's Appeal, Henry Da ...Show more
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
Category: Fiction | Series: Norton Critical Editions
A novel about life in a small Midwestern town in the 1890s, where everyday existence is not always as simple as it seems. This "Norton Critical Edition" contains the text of the first book edition, published in 1919. It is annotated and is accompanied by a map of Winesburg. The "Backgrounds" section inc ...Show more