Literature

The Norton Sampler: Short Essays for Composition
Ninth High School Edition
Hardback
Short essays with just enough writing instruction.

Notes from Underground
Paperback
About Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground
“The novels of Dostoevsky are seething whirlpools, gyrating sandstorms, waterspouts that hiss and boil...

Second Treatise of Government
Paperback
Edited by A. John Simmons, “one of our most distinguished theorists of political obligation” (Jeremy Waldron), the Norton Library edition of Locke’...

The Tale of Genji
Paperback
About Dennis Washburn’s translation
“Washburn’s version of Murasaki Shikibu’s masterpiece is lucid and engaging, irresistibly drawing the reader...

Mrs. Dalloway
Paperback
“Mrs. Dalloway is a novel that thinks with extraordinary precision and virtuosity about what modern novelists mean when they talk about character:...


