Books in the Norton Critical Editions series

"All the world's a stage." Shakespeare's beloved pastoral comedy is now available in a Norton Critical Edition.

Fourteen conjure tales by one of America's most influential African American fiction writers.

Shakespeare's tragedy of one of the most famous assassinations in the world at an epoch-changing time in history.

Few writers have transformed literature and theater so dramatically. Based on Henry J. Schmidt's translations of The Hessian Messenger, Danton's Death, Lenz, Leonce and Lena, and Woyzeck.

The only edition of the celebrated Autobiography that includes the long-missing and recently identified "Wagon Letters."

A stunning work of scholarship, the Norton Critical Edition of The English Bible, King James Version, is the most accessible edition available.

Thomas Paine often declared himself a citizen of the world. This Norton Critical Edition presents Paine and his writing within the transatlantic and global context of the revolutionary ideas and actions of his time.

The text of this edition presents, fully annotated, the 1899 First Edition text of McTeague, a significant example of American literary naturalism and a commentary on turn-of-the-century American cultural values.

This new Norton Critical Edition recounts the 1527-36 expedition of Cabeza de Vaca, the first Spanish explorer to cross North America.

Hannah Webster Foster's two major Early American works with a wealth of primary materials are now available in a Norton Critical Edition.

"Stanley Corngold's translation is a triumph. This is a glorious achievement, a Werther for the ages."-Christopher Prendergast

Karl Marx's 1848 text is reframed in this revised Norton Critical Edition in the context of twenty-first-century theoretical debates, capitalist globalization, the information technology revolution, and contemporary struggles up to and including the 2011 "Arab Spring."

Nathaniel Hawthorne's best-loved tales are now available in a revised Norton Critical Edition.

The most accessible edition of Wordsworth's poetry and prose, prepared to meet the needs of both students and scholars.

Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins contain Twain's most overt treatment of the moral and societal implications of slavery in America.

This Norton Critical Edition of one of Shakespeare's earliest and best-loved comedies is based on the First Folio (1623).

This Norton Critical Edition of Milton's Selected Poetry and Prose includes "Lycidas"-widely considered the greatest short poem in English-the great tragedy Samson Agonistes, the masque Comus, the brief epic Paradise Regained, and eighteen sonnets as well as other poems. It also contains the complete text of five of Milton's major prose works, among them Areopagitica and The Doctrine of Discipline and Divorce. Each major work is accompanied by an individual introduction, and all works have ample explanatory annotations.The major biblical sources that inspired Milton's writing are reprinted, along with fourteen scholarly interpretations of the major texts. From the wealth of commentary on Milton's poetry and prose, the editor has chosen those works that can be studied and appreciated by the greatest number of readers, including essays that can easily be paired for discussion in the classroom. Contributors include Anthony Hecht, William Kerrigan, Mary Nyquist, Stanley Fish, Barbara K. Lewalski, John Carey, and Sharon Achinstein, among others.A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

This edition of "the most modern of eighteenth-century novels" reprints the text of the first edition of the volumes of Tristram Shandy as they appeared from December 1759 to January 1767, including the two illustrations by Hogarth.

Jacob's Room is Virginia Woolf's experimental third novel, set in England during the halcyon days before World War I. The text reprinted here is the first British edition, which Woolf approved, and which retains her original layout, including paragraph spacing.

Since its publication in 1908, Anne of Green Gables has been an enduring bestseller and arguably Canada's most famous novel.

"A man is the sum of his misfortunes." -William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

This volume offers one of the most comprehensive surveys of Tennyson's poetry available for the serious student.

"A true translation whose literary qualities make it stand out from the rest." -Daniel Gold, Cornell University

Bancroft-Prize winning scholar David S. Reynolds introduces a broad selection of Abraham Lincoln's writings-from earliest days through to his last.

Coleridge combined the genius of a poet with the mind of a philosophical critic.

Byron's Poetry and Prose presents an extensive selection of Byron's poetry, letters, and journal entries in chronological clusters, allowing readers to see the changes that took place in his writing in the context of the places he lived and his fame, exile, and travels.