Norton Critical Editions:Nineteenth-Century Literature

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  Frankenstein

  Mary Shelley, J. Paul Hunter

  Second Edition

  Paperback

  The best-selling student edition on the market, now available in a Second Edition.

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  The Rise of Silas Lapham

  William Dean Howells, Paul R. Petrie

  Paperback

  Including several images in various media to help paint a fuller picture of Howells's time and place. A rich selection of correspondence to and...

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  An Essay on the Principle of Population

  Thomas Robert Malthus, Joyce E. Chaplin

  Paperback

  The world’s population is now 7.4 billion people. As we stand witness to a possible reversal of modernity’s positive trends, Thomas Malthus’s pessimism is worth full reconsideration.

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  The Secret Agent

  Joseph Conrad, Richard Niland

  Paperback

  “[A] masterly study of the inner workings of the disordered minds whose aim is destruction, violence, and the overturning of law and order by means of bombs.”—The Observer (1907)

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  Hard Times

  Charles Dickens, Fred Kaplan

  Fourth Edition

  Paperback

  “An excellent collection of critical and social commentary that will help to make Dickens’ image of Victorian England meaningful to all students.”—John Howard Wilson, Dakota Wesleyan University