Norton Critical Editions:American Literature

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  • The Red Badge of Courage: A Norton Critical Edition

    Stephen Crane, Eric Carl Link, Donald Pizer

    Fourth Edition

    Paperback

    This Norton Critical Edition of Stephen Crane’s classic 1895 Civil War novel is again based on the first published edition, conservatively edited.

  • Walden / Civil Disobedience / and Other Writings: A Norton Critical Edition

    Henry David Thoreau, William Rossi

    Third Edition

    Paperback

    As a unique feature, the Third Edition includes generous excerpts from Thoreau's journal, reprinted by special arrangements with Princeton...

  • Ragged Dick: A Norton Critical Edition

    Horatio Alger Jr., Hildegard Hoeller

    First Edition

    Paperback

    Ragged Dick; or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks is arguably the best known of Horatio Alger’s American rags-to-riches stories.

  • O Pioneers!: A Norton Critical Edition

    Willa Cather, Sharon O'Brien

    First Edition

    Paperback

    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.

  • The Secret Garden: A Norton Critical Edition

    Frances Hodgson Burnett, Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina

    First Edition

    Paperback

    Frances Hodgson Burnett was the highest paid and most widely read woman writer of her time, publishing more than fifty novels and thirteen plays.