Norton Critical Editions:Modern and Contemporary Literature

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  • The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA: A Norton Critical Edition

    James D. Watson, Gunther S. Stent

    First Edition

    Paperback

    Background materials include reproductions of the original scientific papers in which the double helical structure of DNA was first presented in...

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    The Time Machine: A Norton Critical Edition

    H. G. Wells, Stephen Arata

    First Edition

    Paperback

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

  • Jacob's Room: A Norton Critical Edition

    Virginia Woolf, Suzanne Raitt

    First Edition

    Paperback

    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.

  • To the Lighthouse: A Norton Critical Edition

    Virginia Woolf, Margaret Homans

    Paperback

    “One of Woolf's most beloved novels, To the Lighthouse, finally gets a Norton Critical Edition. In Margaret Homans, To the Lighthouse has an ideal editor, for Homans brings her deep knowledge of the Victorian world Woolf portrays, her long admiration for

  • Mrs. Dalloway: A Norton Critical Edition

    Virginia Woolf, Anne Fernald

    First Edition

    Paperback

    “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