Norton Critical Editions:American Literature

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  • 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.

  • My Ántonia: A Norton Critical Edition

    Willa Cather, Sharon O'Brien

    First Edition

    Paperback

    In the final volume in her prairie trilogy, Willa Cather fully transforms memory into art to create her most autobiographical novel.

  • 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.