Norton Critical Editions

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Just completed THE SUFFERINGS OF YOUNG WERTHER by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated from the German by Stanley Corngold. This is the Norton Critical Edition.

“Digital Detox”: Using Norton Critical Editions To Promote Critical Thinking The Norton Learning Blog has recently featured several posts that offer suggestions for generating greater classroom success by integrating ChatGPT and similar machine-learning-applications. (I fin…

Are you looking to create a literature course without using machine-learning applications? Read on to learn how Richard Haslam uses Norton Critical Editions and their contextual materials to support this goal and improve students' critical thinking skills: seagull.wwnorton.com/Haslam_Digit...

Hello! It depends on the edition. Sometimes there's more overlap than others. In this edition there are four new critical essays, new images, and updated editorial materials including the introduction and annotations.

Cover of The Book of Margery Kempe: A Norton Critical Edition, Second Edition edited by Lynn Staley against a green bush with red flowers. The cover image is a carving of a woman in a chapel doorway.

Let thine attention not stray—we have a brand-new Second Norton Critical Edition of The Book of Margery Kempe!

Lynn Staley (Colgate University) new edition has everything a reader needs to study Margery Kempe’s genre-defining work between these two covers: wwnorton.com/books/978132...

Join us today at 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 AM PT for a very special NCE Speakers Series Event on Mariano Azuela's novel of the Mexican Revolution, The Underdogs!

Editor Ilan Stavans will talk about the novels enduring legacy and will do a Q&A! Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

This new edition just published! The new edition includes updated editorial matter, new archival research, and new critical interpretations! It's a thorough and engaging update (though I am certainly biased here!).

New third Norton Critical Edition of Jean Toomer’s Cane featuring a portrait of Jean Toomer is held up against a grey and white textured wallpaper. #newbooktuesday #pubday

Return to Cane, Jean Toomer’s classic genre-bending modernist masterpiece, with the brand-new Third Norton Critical Edition!

Revised by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. & Jesse McCarthy, this edition features everything students need for in-depth study: wwnorton.com/books/978132...

If your summer Friday is in need of some serious excitement, join the Hemingway Society for a morning webinar on #AFarewelltoArms! Their panel includes our Norton Critical Editions editor Marc K. Dudley and our @nortonlibrary.bsky.social editor Mark Cirino!
www.hemingwaysociety.org/hemingway-so...

Norton Critical Edition of Mansfield Park: 320 pages of novel. Nearly 200 pages of DVD extras. Impressive

Oh, how I love a dog-eared Norton Critical edition. #books #writers

Hi @juliennegre.bsky.social! Thanks for spotting this! I'll pass it along to our team to file for a reprint correction. Some typos are so sneaky that they slip past all of us that review each NCE round after round!

Mrs dalloway, norton critical edition

It arrived!

Sudden, powerful rush of nostalgia for Norton Critical Editions.

Think I might have discovered the best cover for a Norton Critical Edition of all time? Truly outstanding.

“You have multiple copies of Wuthering Heights” okay, yes, fair, I do collect those, but also the Norton Critical Edition is a distinct book!!

Twelfth Night: A Norton Critical Edition by William Shakespeare book wearing a green and orange jester hat. The cover image is of Dame Eileen Mayo’s costume design for Malcolm—a green outfit with yellow tights and a black cape

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Join Viola and Sebastian as you’ve never seen them before in our First #NortonCriticalEdition of William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night! This edition has been expertly edited by Natasha Korda (Wesleyan Uni.)!

Available now: wwnorton.com/books/978039...

Join Norton Critical Edition editors Robert S. Miola and
@profshakespeare.bsky.social on William Shakespeare's birthday to discuss his impact on English Literature throughout the centuries and new ways to engage students in the classroom! REGISTER HERE: bit.ly/3EGNYZH

Dr. Pamela J. Franics outlines how the Norton Critical Edition of Wide Sargasso Sea brings a deeper analysis to #highschool #literature, including teaching the importance of critical literary lenses, context, and backstory when analyzing text. #LitRules seagull.wwnorton.com/WideSargasso...

Turn on, tune in, drop by the Norton website for your own copy of The Steppenwolf: A Norton Critical Edition, translated by Kurt Beals from Hermann Hesse’s mind-bending original German novel: wwnorton.com/books/978039...!

Gatsby @ 100: American Classrooms, American Dreams? - Public Books The story of Gatsby, Nick, Tom, and Daisy is also, much more importantly, part of the history of hundreds of millions of student readers and their teachers, spanning eight decades.

For the 100th anniversary of #TheGreatGatsby, take a look at Gatsby in the classroom with our wonderful Norton Critical Edition contributor Andrew Newman!

www.publicbooks.org/gatsby-100-a...

Hi @qinshihuang.bsky.social! Yes, there will be a Norton Critical Edition (and Norton Library edition!) of Emily Wilson's translation of THE ILIAD! That won't be out this year, though. You can always check out landing page for updates: seagull.wwnorton.com/nortoncritic...

The Waste Land and Other Poems: A Norton Critical Edition held against greenery and flowers. The cover is a portrait of T. S. Eliot sitting in a chair.

April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
—T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”

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Workshop invitation to see Translator and Editor of The Steppenwolf: A Norton Critical Edition and All Quiet on the Western Front discuss these novels and their legacy.

Join translator & editor Kurt Beals TOMORROW for a discussion of why these famous German novels have endured as often taught & read works in classrooms around the world!
There will be a Q&A with Kurt Beals in the second half of the event, so bring your best questions!

REGISTER HERE: bit.ly/4bqsXyk

Denzel Washington as Macbeth on the cover of the Norton Critical Edition of Macbeth. The book is on a white table with red backlighting.

Is this a brand-new #nortoncriticaledition which I see before me, the cover toward my hand?

Delve into a brand-new third edition of the Scottish play we love to quote, #WilliamShakespeare’s Macbeth, edited once again by Robert S. Miola: wwnorton.com/books/978132...

The cover of "Beowulf - A Verse Translation", by Seamus Heaney, Norton Critical Edition.

I just finished this, and it was a thought-provoking and informative read in several different ways. I'll pass over most of that here, and look at Tolkien's relationship with the poem, which I think is deeper than is commonly realized. 🧵

Dante's Inferno. I'm collecting these Norton Critical Editions like Beanie Babies. #booksky

Woman in a purple sweater holding a copy of Orlando by Virginia Woolf. The book cover is a costume sketch from a stage adaptation of this work of queer LGBTQ fiction.

To put it in a nutshell, we are afflicted with a love of our brand-new #NortonCriticalEdition of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando!

Carefully edited by Madelyn Detloff (Miami University), this volume has everything you need to study Orlando between its covers: wwnorton.com/books/978132...