Norton Critical Editions:American Literature

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  The Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe: A Norton Critical Edition

  Edgar Allan Poe, G.R. Thompson

  First Edition

  Paperback

  Edgar Allan Poe’s works, with their gothic and often obsessive themes, have had a significant influence on American literature.

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  The Age of Innocence: A Norton Critical Edition

  Edith Wharton, Candace Waid

  First Edition

  Paperback

  The text of Wharton’s richly allusive Pulitzer Prize–winning 1921 novel of desire and its implications in Old New York has been rigorously annotated by a prominent Wharton scholar.

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  Tales of Henry James: A Norton Critical Edition

  Henry James, Christof Wegelin, Henry B. Wonham

  Second Edition

  Paperback

  Nine of James’s most important tales, including (new to the second edition) "In the Cage," a tale that engages James’s complicated attitudes toward gender, class, and the rise of information technology.

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  The Wings of the Dove: A Norton Critical Edition

  Henry James, J. Donald Crowley, Richard A. Hocks

  Second Edition

  Paperback

  The text of this 1902 novel is again that of the fully corrected and annotated reprint of the New York Edition (1909), together with James’s preface and the two frontispieces he commissioned for the New York Edition of The Wings of the Dove.

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  Melville's Short Novels: A Norton Critical Edition

  Herman Melville, Dan McCall

  First Edition

  Paperback

  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.