Norton Critical Editions:Modern and Contemporary Literature

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  • A Clockwork Orange: A Norton Critical Edition

    Anthony Burgess, Mark Rawlinson

    First Edition

    Paperback

    “A brilliant novel . . . a savage satire on the distortions of the single and collective minds.” —New York Times

    “Anthony Burgess has written what looks like a nasty little shocker, but is really that rare thing in English letters: a philosophical novel.” —Time

  • Modern and Contemporary Irish Drama: A Norton Critical Edition

    John P. Harrington

    Second Edition

    Paperback

    Modern and Contemporary Irish Drama is the ideal focal point for the study of Irish literature and culture and, because of its many great twentieth-century works, for the study of drama more generally.

  • Jacob's Room: A Norton Critical Edition

    Virginia Woolf, Suzanne Raitt

    First Edition

    Paperback

    Jacob’s Room is Virginia Woolf’s experimental third novel, set in England during the halcyon days before World War I. The text reprinted here is the first British edition, which Woolf approved, and which retains her original layout, including paragraph spacing.

  • Dubliners: A Norton Critical Edition

    James Joyce, Margot Norris

    First Edition

    Paperback

    Dubliners is arguably the best-known and most influential collection of short stories written in English, and has been since its publication in 1914.

  • The Return of the Native: A Norton Critical Edition

    Thomas Hardy, Phillip Mallett

    Second Edition

    Paperback

    This Second Edition reprints the text of the authoritative 1912 Macmillan Wessex Edition.