Norton Critical Editions:Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature

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  Tartuffe: A New Verse Translation: A Norton Critical Edition

  Molière, Constance Congdon, Constance Congdon, Virginia Scott

  First Edition

  Paperback

  Widely hailed as the founder of the modern French comedy, and known to be a gifted actor, playwright, and patron of fellow actors, Molière was a towering presence in seventeenth-century France—and the scourge of its political and religious Establishment.

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  The Selected Political Writings of John Locke

  John Locke, Paul E. Sigmund

  First Edition

  Paperback

  John Locke’s revolutionary writings created a sea change in political theory and, eventually, in liberal democracy in practice.

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  An Essay on the Principle of Population

  Thomas Robert Malthus, Philip Appleman

  Second Edition

  Paperback

  While millions face hunger, malnutrition, and starvation, the world’s population is increasing by over 225,000 people per day, 80 million per year.

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  Gulliver's Travels: A Norton Critical Edition

  Jonathan Swift, Albert J. Rivero

  First Edition

  Paperback

  As featured on PBS’s The Great American Read

  This new edition of Swift's satiric classic is based on the 1726 text—the edition textual scholars now consider the most authoritative.

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  The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African, Written by Himself: A Norton Critical Edition

  Olaudah Equiano, Werner Sollors

  First Edition

  Paperback

  The text of Equiano’s narrative presented here is that of the 1789 first edition.