Norton Critical Editions:Nineteenth-Century Literature

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  • Byron's Poetry and Prose: A Norton Critical Edition

    George Gordon Byron, Alice Levine

    Second Edition

    Paperback

    Byron's Poetry and Prose presents an extensive selection of Byron's poetry, letters, and journal entries in chronological clusters, allowing readers to see the changes that took place in his writing in the context of the places he lived and his fame, exile, and travels.

  • Castle Rackrent: A Norton Critical Edition

    Maria Edgeworth, Ryan Twomey

    First Edition

    Paperback

    The only edition of this 1800 novel—widely regarded as the first historical novel—to include material on the importance of Maria Edgeworth as a writer and the influence of contemporary history on this novel.

  • Coleridge's Poetry and Prose: A Norton Critical Edition

    Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Nicholas Halmi, Paul Magnuson, Raimonda Modiano

    First Edition

    Paperback

    Coleridge combined the genius of a poet with the mind of a philosophical critic.

  • The Communist Manifesto: A Norton Critical Edition

    Karl Marx, Frederic L. Bender

    Second Edition

    Paperback

    Karl Marx’s 1848 text is reframed in this revised Norton Critical Edition in the context of twenty-first-century theoretical debates, capitalist globalization, the information technology revolution, and contemporary struggles up to and including the 2011 “Arab Spring.”

  • Darwin: A Norton Critical Edition

    Charles Darwin, Philip Appleman

    Third Edition

    Paperback

    "The best Darwin anthology on the market" (Stephen Jay Gould, Harvard) has just become better, in this newly revised version of the now classic Norton Critical Edition, first published in 1970.