Norton Critical Editions:Nineteenth-Century Literature
Hard Times: A Norton Critical Edition
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
Wordsworth's Poetry and Prose: A Norton Critical Edition
First Edition
Paperback
The most accessible edition of Wordsworth’s poetry and prose, prepared to meet the needs of both students and scholars.
Castle Rackrent: A Norton Critical Edition
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.
The Sufferings of Young Werther: A Norton Critical Edition
First Edition
Paperback
“Corngold’s new translation is of the very highest quality, punctiliously faithful to Goethe’s German and sensitive to gradations of style in this extraordinary, trail-blazing first novel.”
—J. M. Coetzee, New York Review of Books
The Communist Manifesto: A Norton Critical Edition
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.”