Norton Critical Editions:American Literature

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  • Little Women: A Norton Critical Edition

    Louisa May Alcott, Gregory Eiselein, Anne K Phillips

    First Edition

    Paperback

    This authoritative, accurate text of the first edition (1868–69) of Little Women is accompanied by textual variants and thorough explanatory annotations.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.