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The first edition of its kind, The Great Fairy Tale Tradition is indispensable for students of fairy tales.

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.

"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

"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 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.

The text of the Third Edition is based on the 1900 Doubleday Page edition, with detailed annotations that reveal the author's use of real people and places in Chicago and New York.

Collected in this volume are Bartleby the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, and Billy Budd-presented in the best texts available, those published during Melville's lifetime and corrected by the author.

Moll Flanders is one of the best-selling novels of all time.

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 reprints the original 1850 text of Dickens' most autobiographical novel, and his own personal favorite, including all of the line drawings by Phiz.

"Her language is a lesson in speaking to the moment and to the centuries both, and Edith Grossman captures its suggestiveness with a calm elegance."-Alberto Rios, author of The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body.

"Celebrated in the Renaissance as the foremost stylist of Italian prose, Boccaccio has seldom met his match in English translation...Wayne Rebhorn's fluid and dynamic rendition hits the mark on every page." -William J. Kennedy, Cornell University

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.

Anonymously published in 1554, Lazarillo de Tormes remains a centrepiece of Renaissance literature and is arguably the most popular example of the picaresque novel.

Hamlet, Shakespeare's most famous play, is now available in an all-new, illustrated Norton Critical Edition.

This Norton Critical Edition of Solomon Northup's harrowing autobiography is based on the 1853 first edition. It is accompanied by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s introduction and detailed explanatory footnotes.

This Norton Critical Edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's most widely read novel appears during the bicentennial anniversary year of his birth.

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.

Candide has been delighting readers since 1759 with its satiric wit, provocations and warnings.

"An excellent collection of critical and social commentary that will help to make Dickens' image of Victorian England meaningful to all students."-John Howard Wilson, Dakota Wesleyan University

This Norton Critical Edition includes thirty of Guy de Maupassant's best short stories centring on war, the supernatural and French life, with an introduction and explanatory footnotes.

"[A] masterly study of the inner workings of the disordered minds whose aim is destruction, violence, and the overturning of law and order by means of bombs."-The Observer (1907)

Jane McAuliffe introduces the Qur'an as a living scripture, preparing readers for an informed encounter with the text.

Magnificent and strange, Pierre is a richly allusive novel mirroring both antebellum America and Herman Melville's own life.

While millions face hunger, malnutrition, and starvation, the world's population is increasing by over 225,000 people per day, 80 million per year.

This Norton Critical Edition of the world's first major work of literary criticism is based on James Hutton's acclaimed translation. The text and explanatory and glossarial notes represent the work of the accomplished Hellenists James Hutton and Michelle

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.

The Time Machine (1895) is H. G. Wells's first published novel as well as his most enduring and influential work.

This Second Edition of a perennial favorite in the Norton Critical Edition series represents an extensive revision of its predecessor.

This Norton Critical Edition brings research into this beloved poet's body of work completely up to date.