Books in the Norton Critical Editions series

The Second Edition of this Norton Critical Edition continues to be based on Albert Cook's translation, widely acclaimed for its poetic phrasing and linguistic accuracy.

"This fine version, with David Cronenberg's inspired introduction and the new translator's beguiling afterword, is, I suspect, the most disturbing though the most comforting of all so far; others will follow, but don't hesitate: this is the transforming text for you."-Richard Howard

"This is the best Norton Critical Edition yet! All my students are becoming intensely interested in reading Conrad-largely because of this excellent work."-Elise F. Knapp, Western Connecticut State University

This Norton Critical Edition includes:Jared Gardner's insightful introduction and explanatory notes.Generous selections from four of Will Eisner's major graphic novels and story collections, carefully chosen with student readers in mind.Will Eisner's interviews and published writing on comics and the graphic novel genre from 1978 to 2000.Thirteen wide-ranging reviews and assessments of Eisner's works.Critical essays by Andrew J. Kunka, Paul Williams, Jeremy Dauber, Greg M. Smith, and Derek Parker Royal.A chronology of Will Eisner's life and work and a selected bibliography.

"Fluent, strong, and engagingly readable. The narrative skill is such that we are soon willing to believe that Raffel is Cervantes reborn and writing in English." -Guy Davenport

For this Sesquicentennial Norton Critical Edition, the Northwestern-Newberry text of Moby-Dick has been generously footnoted to include dozens of biographical discoveries, mainly from Hershel Parker's work on his two-volume biography of Melville.

In addition to the texts of "Walden" and "Civil Disobedience", this title reprints the important works, "Slavery in Massachusetts", "Walking" and "Wild Apples". It includes the best critical writing on the texts by nineteen contributors.

"Donald Dickson's John Donne's Poetry is the best text of Donne now available. It is scrupulously edited, and equally useful for students and for scholars."-Harold Bloom, Yale University

This critical edition of Jane Austen's novel is based on the 1816 text, which has been edited in light of later editions, including the Chapman edition.

This Norton Critical Edition includes:* The Second Quarto text, edited by Robert S. Miola and accompanied by his footnotes, headnotes, and introductory materials. Eighteen illustrations from 1604 to 2008, three of them new to the Second Edition. The Actors' Gallery, presenting actors-from Sarah Bernhardt and Ellen Terry to Kenneth Branagh and David Tennant, two of them new to the Second Edition-reflecting on their roles in major productions of Hamlet. Seventeen critical interpretations, representing a wide range of historical and scholarly commentary. Afterlives, featuring fifteen reflections on Hamlet-from David Garrick and Mark Twain to Margaret Atwood and Jawad al-Assadi. A Bibliography of print and online resources.About the SeriesRead by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format-annotated text, contexts, and criticism-helps students to better understand, analyze, and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.

This Norton Critical Edition includes:Three major essays-On Liberty (1859), Utilitarianism (1861), and The Subjection of Women (1869)-that illustrate Mill's liberal political philosophy at the height of his powers.Editorial matter-including a richly detailed introduction-by Nadia Urbinati.Nine major commentaries-by Alan Ryan, Jonathan Riley, Piers Norris Turner, Wendy Donner, Elizabeth Anderson, Colin Heydt, David Dyzenhaus, Martha Nussbaum, and Georgios Varouxakis-that address the major themes of Mill's philosophy.A chronology, a selected bibliography, and an index.

This Norton Critical Edition includes:The texts of eleven complete, authoritative romances-four new to the Second Edition: Havelok, Ywain and Gawain, Of Kyng Robert of Cisyle, Hou Pride dude Him Begyle, Sir Orfeo, Sir Launfal, Athelston, The Awntyrs off Arthure at the Terne Wathelyne, The Weddyng of Syr Gawen and Dame Ragnell for Helpyng of Kyng Arthoure, The Grene Knight, The Sege off Melayne, and The Taill of Rauf Coilyear, How He Harbreit King Charlis.A thorough introduction accompanied by updated and expanded explanatory footnotes by Stephen H. A. Shepherd.In "Sources and Backgrounds," detailed contextualizing headnotes and comparative analogues (many complete) for each of the eleven romances.In "Criticism," eight essays-four new to the Second Edition-that help students analyze the themes of Middle English romances.An updated selected bibliography "This welcome Second Edition of Stephen Shepherd's collection of Middle English romances offers an authoritative entry into the richly varied world of medieval narrative. The expanded selection, which now also includes Older Scots, invites readers to make any number of connections between these important works and a range of fascinating contextual material that includes chronicles; Continental romances; biblical tales; and other central Middle English poems, such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The thematic groupings present a provocative stimulus to comparative reading, while the new critical pieces on madness, magic, history, and representations of Islam offer a thoughtful selection of fresh approaches to the texts. Professor Shepherd is to be thanked for providing a wonderful resource for students and teachers alike." -Sarah Wood, University of Warwick

This Norton Critical Edition includes:The 1826 Henry Colburn edition of the novel, the only one approved by Mary Shelley.Introduction and explanatory footnotes by Chris Washington.A rich selection of contextual documents-twenty-six in all-pertaining to The Last Man's background and sources, reception and impact, other related works by Shelley, and other "Last Man" texts.Fourteen carefully chosen critical assessments on the novel's major themes.A chronology of Mary Shelley's life and work and a selected bibliography

This Norton Critical Edition includes:The authoritative text of Absalom, Absalom!, established by Noel Polk in 1986 and accompanied by Susan Scott Parrish's introduction and explanatory footnotes.Two maps and five other images.A rich selection of background and contextual materials carefully arranged to draw readers into the American South of William Faulkner's imagination. Topics include "Contemporary Reception," "The Writer and His Work," and "Historical Contexts."Seventeen critical essays on the novel's major themes, from classic literary critiques to recent scholarship on, among other topics, race, gender, and the environment.A chronology and a selected bibliography.

Set in the Nebraska landscape in a community evocative of Cather's own (Red Cloud), My Ántonia tells the story of Ántonia Shimerda, a Bohemian immigrant, and Jim Burden, who like Cather was uprooted from Virginia to the Nebraska prairie. Ántonia and Jim, like many of the other characters in this 1918 novel, are based on Cather's childhood friends. This Norton Critical Edition is based on the first published edition of the novel. It is accompanied by explanatory footnotes, key illustrations, an introduction that gives readers a historical overview of both author and novel, and a note on the text."Contexts and Backgrounds" is a rich collection of materials organized around the novel's central themes: "Autobiographical and Biographical Writings," "Letters," and "Americanization and Immigration." Willa Cather, Edith Lewis, Latrobe Carroll, Rose C. Feld, Guy Reynolds, Woodrow Wilson, Peter Roberts, Horace M. Kallen, Sarka B. Hrbkova, and Rose Rosicky, among others, are included."Criticism" spans a century of scholarship on Willa Cather and My Ántonia, from contemporary reviews by Henry Walcott Boynton, H. L. Mencken, and Elia W. Peattie, among others, to recent critical assessments by Terence Martin, Blanche Gelfant, Jean Schwind, Richard H. Millington, Susan Rosowski, Mike Fischer, Janis Stout, Marilee Lindemann, and Linda Joyce Brown.A Chronology of Cather's life and work and a Selected Bibliography are also included.

"Illuminating and original combination of biographical, historical, literary, and critical sources for Mrs. Dalloway by the leading Woolf scholar who edited the annotated edition of the novel. Diary and letter selections provide fresh contexts. Superb resource for teachers and students!"-Susan Stanford Friedman, University of Wisconsin, Madison

The text for this edition of Notes from Underground is Michael Katz's acclaimed translation of the 1863 novel, which is introduced and annotated specifically for English-speaking readers.

A new translation of what is considered to be the world's first novel.

This Norton Critical Edition presents fully annotated the text of the 1897 First Edition.

For the first time in any modern language, a female scholar and translator re-imagines The Art of War.

The best-selling student edition on the market, now available in a Second Edition.

This perennially popular Norton Critical Edition reprints for the first time the definitive Iowa-California text of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, complete with all original illustrations by Edward Windsor Kemble and John Harley. The text is accompanied by explanatory annotations.

This Norton Critical Edition includes the most admired of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.