Norton Critical Editions:Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature

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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.

  • 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.

  • Tom Jones: A Norton Critical Edition

    Henry Fielding, Sheridan Baker

    Second Edition

    Paperback

    The Second Edition of this Norton Critical Edition of Fielding’s great novel reprints the definitive fourth edition text (1749, dated 1750), "Carefully revis’d and corrected/By Henry Fielding, Esq;", the last in his lifetime.

  • Tristram Shandy: A Norton Critical Edition

    Laurence Sterne, Judith Hawley

    First Edition

    Paperback

    This Norton Critical Edition includes:

    · The first London edition (1759) of Sterne’s revolutionary and influential novel.

    · Textual notes,...

  • A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: A Norton Critical Edition

    Mary Wollstonecraft, Deidre Shauna Lynch

    Third Edition

    Paperback

    Arguably the most original book of the eighteenth century, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is a pioneering feminist work.