Norton Critical Editions:American Literature

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  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: A Norton Critical Edition

    Mark Twain, Beverly Lyon Clark

    First Edition

    Paperback

    As featured on PBS’s The Great American Read

    The text of this Norton Critical Edition is based, with typesetting errors corrected, on the first U.S. edition (1876), the most authoritative of the editions published in Twain’s lifetime.

  • 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.

  • Three Lives and Q.E.D.: A Norton Critical Edition

    Gertrude Stein, Marianne DeKoven

    First Edition

    Paperback

    This Norton Critical Edition includes both Three Lives and Q.E.D., first published in 1909 and 1950, respectively.

  • Sister Carrie: A Norton Critical Edition

    Theodore Dreiser, Donald Pizer

    Third Edition

    Paperback

    The text of the Third Edition is based on the 1900 Doubleday Page edition, with detailed annotations that reveal the author’s use of real people and places in Chicago and New York.