Norton Critical Editions:Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature

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  • The Pilgrim's Progress: A Norton Critical Edition

    John Bunyan, Cynthia Wall

    First Edition

    Paperback

    As featured on PBS’s The Great American Read

    John Bunyan was a Baptist preacher and author with little education but much vision and purpose.

  • Tartuffe: A New Verse Translation: A Norton Critical Edition

    Molière, Constance Congdon, Constance Congdon, Virginia Scott

    First Edition

    Paperback

    Widely hailed as the founder of the modern French comedy, and known to be a gifted actor, playwright, and patron of fellow actors, Molière was a towering presence in seventeenth-century France—and the scourge of its political and religious Establishment.

  • The Selected Political Writings of John Locke

    John Locke, Paul E. Sigmund

    First Edition

    Paperback

    John Locke’s revolutionary writings created a sea change in political theory and, eventually, in liberal democracy in practice.

  • Moll Flanders: A Norton Critical Edition

    Daniel Defoe, Albert J. Rivero

    First Edition

    Paperback

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

  • An Essay on the Principle of Population

    Thomas Robert Malthus, Philip Appleman

    Second Edition

    Paperback

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