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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.
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
An Essay on the Principle of Population - Text, Sources and Background, Criticism by Thomas Robert Malthus; Philip Appleman (Editor)
Category: Philosophy | Series: Norton Critical Editions Ser.
The text is accompanied by explanatory annotations and excerpts from the revised edition (1803). Key eighteenth-century influences on Malthus are reprinted, including one by Benjamin Franklin Nine major assessments from the nineteenth century are reprinted, including--new to the Second Edition--those of ...Show more
Beowulf - A Verse Translation - Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism by Seamus Heaney (Foreword by); Daniel Donoghue
Category: Classics | 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
Crime and Punishment (Norton Critical Edition) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Michael R. Katz)
Category: No Category | 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: Classics | 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
E. E. Cummings - Selected Works, Norton Critical Edition by E. E. Cummings
Category: No Category | Series: Norton Critical Editions Ser.
This Norton Critical Edition includes: 166 poems spanning the range of Cummings's career, selections of his prose and dramatic writing, twelve paintings and sketches, and three facsimiles of his drafts--the first ever annotated and cross-genre collection of his work aimed at student readers. Annotations ...Show more
In Memoriam by Alfred Lord Tennyson; Erik Gray (Editor)
Category: Classics | 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
North and South by Gaskell Elizabeth
Category: Classics | Series: Norton Critical Editions Ser.
When her father has a crisis of conscious, Margaret Hale's life is turned upside down. Because her parents decide to move away from southern London, Margaret must leave behind the tranquil, rural life she's always known to settle in an industrial town called Milton. Though she does her best to assimilat ...Show more
Northanger Abbey (Norton Critical ed) by Jane Austin
Category: Classics | Series: Norton Critical Editions Ser.
Excerpt:...CHAPTER 1No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine. Her situation in life, the character of her father and mother, her own person and disposition, were all equally against her. Her father was a clergyman, without being neglected, o ...Show more
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Michael R. Katz
Category: Reference | Series: Norton Critical Editions Ser.
"I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man," a nameless voice cries out. And so, from underground, emerge the passionate confessions of a suffering man; the painful self-examination of a tormented soul; the bristling scorn of a lonely individual who has become one of the greatest anti-heroes in all literatu ...Show more