Norton Critical Editions:American Literature

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  • 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.

  • The Confidence-Man: A Norton Critical Edition

    Herman Melville, Hershel Parker, Mark Niemeyer

    Second Edition

    Paperback

    The text of The Confidence-Man reprinted here is again that of the first American edition (1857), slightly corrected.

  • The House of the Seven Gables

    Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert S. Levine

    First Edition

    Paperback

    This all-new edition of Hawthorne’s celebrated 1851 novel is based on The Ohio State University Press’s Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

  • Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins: A Norton Critical Edition

    Mark Twain, Sidney E. Berger

    Second Edition

    Paperback

    Pudd’nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins contain Twain’s most overt treatment of the moral and societal implications of slavery in America.