Bücher der Reihe Norton Critical Editions

A revolutionary social and political commentary, North and South solidified Gaskell's place in the company of Victorian England's finest novelists.

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 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.

The text of The Confidence-Man reprinted here is again that of the first American edition (1857), slightly corrected.

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.

"A classic work of American literature . . . in full, as the author wrote it." -New York Times......"This is Red Badge as Crane actually wrote it." - Boston Globe

"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

The text of this Second Edition of one of Henry James's most important novels is that of the New York Edition (1908).

This much-anticipated Norton Critical Edition of Shakespeare's best-known play is based on the Second Quarto, widely agreed to be the most authoritative early text.

This third Norton Critical Edition of Hardy's last novel has been revised to reflect the breadth of responses it has received over the last fifteen years.

The Second Edition of the Norton Critical Edition of Robinson Crusoe is based on the Shakespeare Head Press reprint of the first edition copy in the British Museum, with the "errata" listed by Defoe's publisher, William Taylor, incorporated into the text.

This Norton Critical Edition of Chaucer's masterpiece is based on Stephen Barney's acclaimed text and is accompanied by a translation of its major source, Boccaccio's Filostrato.

This Norton Critical Edition seeks to return Keats-one of the most beloved poets of the English language-to his cultural moment by tracking his emergence as a public poet.

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

Hailed in Newsweek for his translation of The Poems of Catullus ("Charles Martin is an American poet; he puts the poetry, the immediacy of the streets back into the English Catullus. The effect is electric"), Martin's translation of Metamorphoses will be the translation of choice for contemporary readers.

This new Norton Critical Edition of Hawthorne's innovative 1852 novel helps readers navigate and appreciate its elusive plot, powerful characters, and maddening narrator.

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.

"Palma's wonderfully readable translation comes close to perfection. I'm tempted to call it a miracle."-X. J. Kennedy

This Second Edition is based on the authoritative texts chosen by the editors from their scholarly edition of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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.

An influential seventeenth-century fable, by a pathbreaking woman writer, about the fall of a black prince.

The text is that of the third edition text of this influential novel, which incorporates all of Burney's changes.