Norton Critical Editions:American Literature

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  • Absalom, Absalom!: A Norton Critical Edition

    William Faulkner, Susan Scott Parrish

    First Edition

    Paperback

    This Norton Critical Edition includes:

    • The authoritative text of Absalom, Absalom!, established by Noel Polk in 1986 and accompanied by Susan...

  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Norton Critical Edition

    Mark Twain, Thomas Cooley

    Fourth Edition

    Paperback

    “I LOVE this book, as a reader, and I always enjoy teaching it. In the midst of current conversations and conflicts (Black Lives Matter and the responses to it, for example), its importance as a truly ‘American’ novel only grows.”—Anita Guynn, University of North Carolina at Pembroke

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Anne of Green Gables: A Norton Critical Edition

    L. M. Montgomery, Mary Henley Rubio, Elizabeth Waterston

    First Edition

    Paperback

    Since its publication in 1908, Anne of Green Gables has been an enduring bestseller and arguably Canada’s most famous novel.