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The great English Renaissance tragedy-violent, powerful, unforgettable-in a freshly edited and annotated student edition.

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

"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

This Norton Critical Edition includes:An expanded translation from the Akkadian by Benjamin R. Foster based on new discoveries, adding lines throughout the world's oldest epic masterpiece.Benjamin R. Foster's full introduction and expanded explanatory annotations.Eleven illustrations.Analogues from the Sumerian and Hittite narrative traditions along with "The Gilgamesh Letter," a parody of the epic enjoyed by Mesopotamian schoolchildren during the first millennium BCE.Essays by Thorkild Jacobsen, William L. Moran, Susan Ackerman, and Andrew R. George, and a poem by Hillary Major.A Glossary of Proper Names and a Selected Bibliography.

This Norton Critical Edition includes:. The First Folio (1623) text, accompanied by the editors' preface and detailed explanatory annotations.. A rich collection of source materials by Ovid, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, King James I, Michel de Montaigne and others centered on the play's major themes of magic, witchcraft, politics, religion, geography and travel.. Seventeen wide-ranging scholarly essays, seven of them new to the Second Edition.. Nineteen rescriptings that speak to The Tempest's enduring inspiration and provocation for writers from Thomas Heywood and Percy Bysshe Shelley to Aimé Césaire and Ted Hughes.. A Selected Bibliography.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, analyse 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.

The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare's most beautiful plays and, conversely, his ugliest. Juxtaposed within the same conceptual frame are heavenly and musical harmonies, romantic love, materialism, and racism.

This Norton Critical Edition presents Chaucer's four dream visions and selected shorter poems and is suitable for both beginning and advanced students.

This "Critical Edition" is based on the Maude translation. The text includes three maps of Napoleon's campaigns and battles in Russia, the publication history of "War and Peace", selections from Tolstoy's letters and diaries, three drafts of his introduction to the novel, and 20 critical essays.

A tragedy that evokes both pity and terror-now in a thoroughly revised and updated Norton Critical Edition.

Willa Cather's masterful 1913 novel marks her return to the Nebraska of her youth, and to the stories of the immigrant settlers she had known during her childhood and teenage years in Red Cloud.

One of the most important activist texts in American literature is now available in a thoroughly updated and revised Norton Critical Edition.

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

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.

This Norton Critical Edition looks at the full range of opinion and interpretation of this major play from its origins to the present day, from its "genius" (William Hazlitt) to its being a "hateful work, although Shakespearean throughout" (Samuel Taylor Coleridge), and beyond.

Dubliners is arguably the best-known and most influential collection of short stories written in English, and has been since its publication in 1914.

A new Norton Critical Edition to fuel the renewed interest in this energetic field of study.

This Norton Critical Edition of one of Shakespeare's best-loved comedies is based on the First Quarto text with variants from the First Folio.

This Norton Critical Edition, edited by one of the pre-eminent scholars in the field, gathers together research on this Greek tragedy, bringing Medea to life for a contemporary audience.

Marie de France's beautiful poems of courtly love, enchantment and mystery are now available in a Norton Critical Edition.

Fairy tales shape our cultures and enrich our imaginations; their narrative stability and cultural durability are incontestable.

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

This Norton Critical Edition includes the First Folio text, along with an introduction, explanatory footnotes, note on the text and textual notes.

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

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

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

"[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)

"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

Based on the 1848 edition text, the Brontes' gifted biographer provides a superlative Norton Critical Edition of Charlotte Bronte's classic novel.

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

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.