Norton Critical Editions:American Literature

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  • The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings: A Norton Critical Edition

    Nathaniel Hawthorne, Leland S. Person

    Second Edition

    Paperback

    This perennially popular Norton Critical Edition has been revised to reflect the most current scholarly approaches to The Scarlet Letter—Hawthorne's most widely read novel—as well as to the five short prose works—“Mrs. Hutchinson”, “Endicott and

  • The Portrait of a Lady: A Norton Critical Edition

    Henry James, Michael Gorra

    First Edition

    Paperback

    Henry James’s most famous novel edited by the critically acclaimed author of Portrait of a Novel.

  • The Awakening: A Norton Critical Edition

    Kate Chopin, Margo Culley

    Third Edition

    Paperback

    This perennial favourite Norton Critical Edition of Kate Chopin’s modernist novel of marital infidelity is now available in a new edition.

  • Pierre Or, The Ambiguities: A Norton Critical Edition

    Herman Melville, Robert S. Levine, Cindy Weinstein

    First Edition

    Paperback

    Magnificent and strange, Pierre is a richly allusive novel mirroring both antebellum America and Herman Melville’s own life.

  • Twelve Years a Slave: A Norton Critical Edition

    Solomon Northup, Kevin M. Burke, Henry Louis Gates Jr.

    First Edition

    Paperback

    This Norton Critical Edition of Solomon Northup’s harrowing autobiography is based on the 1853 first edition. It is accompanied by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s introduction and detailed explanatory footnotes.