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Request a recording of Professor Mehrsa Baradaran's conversation about her new Norton Shorts title "The Racial Wealth Gap," a concise history behind America's systemic economic issues and the forces driving apart the economic fortunes of American families. seagull.wwnorton.com/RacialWealth...

18.02.2026 16:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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And be sure to check out our fantastic authors and editors at their panels throughout #MLA26!

09.01.2026 14:23 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Norton Booth with textbooks on display

Norton Booth with textbooks on display

Are you at #MLA26 and in desperate need of good books, conversation, & a brand new Jane Austen poster for your office? Swing by the Norton booth!

We have team members for @nortonliterature.bsky.social & @nortonlibrary.bsky.social here with us & I promise we are not just anthropomorphic seagulls!

09.01.2026 14:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Norton Internships

Do you have students interested in #publishing? Have them apply to our Spring 2026 Hybrid Internship! Our interns are paid, they get hands on experience, can participate in education sessions, & they can meet the anthropomorphic seagull behind this account!

Apply here: wwnorton.com/careers/nort...

08.12.2025 14:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Green and yellow color blocked cover of John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress Norton Library Edition against a colorful bookcase featuring the spines of other Norton Library editions.

Green and yellow color blocked cover of John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress Norton Library Edition against a colorful bookcase featuring the spines of other Norton Library editions.

I will yet go forward without fear of this brand new Norton Library edition of John Bunyan’s #PilgrimsProgress!

Edited by Margaret SΓΆnser Breen and Andy Draycott, this is an accessible edition that gives readers a feel for The Pilgrim’s Progress as a 17th-century work: wwnorton.com/books/978039...

02.12.2025 20:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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750 A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (with Mark Cirino) | Joyce Carol Oates vs the Trillionaire | My Last Book with Ken Krimstein It's the 750th episode of the History of Literature, and what better way to celebrate than to talk some Hemingway with repeat guest Mark Cirino? In this episode, Ja…

"That fall the snow came very late."
– Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

In Episode 750, @jackewilson.bsky.social talks to Mark Cirino about Hemingway's classic love-and-war novel A Farewell to Arms.
@wwnorton.com #books #ernesthemingway #literature

17.11.2025 13:27 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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14.11.2025 20:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Purple and orange color blocked cover of Charles Dickens’s novel Great Expectations against a backdrop of purple and green flowers. Edited by Daniel Wright for The Norton Library.

Purple and orange color blocked cover of Charles Dickens’s novel Great Expectations against a backdrop of purple and green flowers. Edited by Daniel Wright for The Norton Library.

Against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement, we love our latest Norton Library edition of Charles Dickens’s famed novel Great Expectations, edited by Daniel Wright (University of Toronto): wwnorton.com/books/978132...! #NewBookTuesday

23.09.2025 20:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Happy Fall Semester to those who celebrate! Here's your regular reminder that if you choose my @nortonlibrary.bsky.social Sun Also Rises edition for your reading list, I will be happy to Zoom in with your students or book club for a Q&A!

30.08.2025 12:54 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Green and orange color blocked cover of Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (The Norton Library) edited by Evie Shockley on a wooden table with a white background.

Green and orange color blocked cover of Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (The Norton Library) edited by Evie Shockley on a wooden table with a white background.

This narrative is no fictionβ€”our brand-new edition of Harriet Jacobs’s stirring autobiography, Incidents In the Life of a Slave Girl is available now!

Edited by @seminewblack.bsky.social, this Norton Library edition helps contextualize the narrative for modern readers: wwnorton.com/books/978039...

26.08.2025 17:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A stack of several purple-and-yellow copies of Charles Dickens's GREAT EXPECTATIONS, edited by Daniel Wright, Norton Library edition

A stack of several purple-and-yellow copies of Charles Dickens's GREAT EXPECTATIONS, edited by Daniel Wright, Norton Library edition

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION. Think about this @nortonlibrary.bsky.social edition for all your 2025-26 teaching needs!

wwnorton.com/books/978132...

28.07.2025 14:33 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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What the Movies Get Wrong about Frankenstein (Frankenstein, Part 2) - The Norton Library Podcast In Part 2 of our conversation with Michael BΓ©rubΓ©, we discuss the enduring legacy of Mary Shelley’s Frankensteinβ€”how a cautionary tale about reckless experimentation and radicalization speaks just as ...

"A horrible misreading of this book ... has mushroomed into a destructive reading of the relation of the humanities to the sciences" www.buzzsprout.com/2129520/epis.... Via @nortonlibrary.bsky.social

10.07.2025 00:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Hemingway Society Summer Webinar on Editing A Farewell to Arms | The Hemingway Society

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...

09.07.2025 18:48 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Congrats to Mark Cirino and NLE for this latest edition. NLE editions edited by subject experts and annotated especially for students. Assign texts from this series and feel good about keeping student book fees low and classroom text quality high!

01.07.2025 20:23 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Norton Library edition of A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, a modernist novel. The yellow and blue text cover is photographed on a brown background with a succulent and candle as decor

Norton Library edition of A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, a modernist novel. The yellow and blue text cover is photographed on a brown background with a succulent and candle as decor

Lay down your TBR and pick up the brand-new Norton Library edition of Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, edited by the insightful & thought-provoking Mark Cirino!

Read along here: wwnorton.com/books/978132... and tune into the Norton Library podcast in two weeks for our episodes on the novel!

01.07.2025 20:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Taylor Swift's "Anti-Hero" and Hemingway's Flawed Characters (The Sun Also Rises, Part 2) - The Norton Library Podcast In Part 2 of our discussion on Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, editor Verna Kale returns to discuss the vintage bullfighting posters that inspired the cover of the Norton Library edition, a "ho...

To Those Claiming Taylor No Longer Hot: Norton Library weighs in. @nortonlibrary.bsky.social www.buzzsprout.com/2129520/epis...

19.05.2025 20:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Scarlet A buttons

Scarlet A buttons

New edition of The Scarlet Letter, a book with almost no plot but an extremely analytical narrator

New edition of The Scarlet Letter, a book with almost no plot but an extremely analytical narrator

Justine Murison giving a well-attended talk at the Rare Book library at the U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Justine Murison giving a well-attended talk at the Rare Book library at the U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Excited to hear @jsmurison.bsky.social’s talk about her new edition of The Scarlet Letter from Norton. Check out those scarlet A pinback buttons! πŸ˜…

03.04.2025 23:19 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Red and yellow cover of Emily Wilson’s translation of Homer’s The Iliad for the Norton Library series against a backdrop of yellow tulips.

Red and yellow cover of Emily Wilson’s translation of Homer’s The Iliad for the Norton Library series against a backdrop of yellow tulips.

You already know the story of Homer’s The Iliad, but you can now experience the crushing grief of the world’s greatest war story anew!

@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social’s gripping translation is now available as part of the Norton Library series. Get your copy here: wwnorton.com/books/978132...

22.04.2025 19:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Norton Internships

Are you a student or recent grad interested in #publishing? Do you want to learn how the industry works across all departments in a publishing house? If so, take a look at our new Summer 2025 Internships! We offer in-person and remote options!

Apply here: wwnorton.com/careers/nort...

01.04.2025 14:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Taylor Swift's "Anti-Hero" and Hemingway's Flawed Characters (The Sun Also Rises, Part 2) - The Norton Library Podcast In Part 2 of our discussion on Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, editor Verna Kale returns to discuss the vintage bullfighting posters that inspired the cover of the Norton Library edition, a "ho...

Join us for part 2 of @vernakale.bsky.social's incredible conversation with the Norton Library Podcast on Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises! You'll get hot takes, Taylor Swift lyrics, a look into Hemingway's mindset while writing the novel, and more!

www.buzzsprout.com/2129520/epis...

24.03.2025 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
The blue and orange cover of the Norton Library edition of The Odyssey by Homer,  translation by Emily Wilson.

The blue and orange cover of the Norton Library edition of The Odyssey by Homer, translation by Emily Wilson.

I loved taking part in #APSTogether reading groups with A Public Space during the pandemic, and it's been a while since I joined in. Remedying that tomorrow with Emily Wilson's translation of Homer's The Odyssey.
apstogether.substack.com/p/the-odysse...

04.02.2025 22:19 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A collection of colorful Norton Library editions with an emphasis on the lilac and navy edition of Little Women

A collection of colorful Norton Library editions with an emphasis on the lilac and navy edition of Little Women

The best color combo to date in the @wwnorton.bsky.social Norton Library series arrived this week. I’ve never finished Little Women as an adult. !

12.02.2025 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

TYSM for knowing the exact vibe we were aiming for!

28.01.2025 20:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Norton library edition of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. The purple book is against a white background with a white vase of dried lavender sprigs

Norton library edition of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. The purple book is against a white background with a white vase of dried lavender sprigs

The Norton Library team loves good strong words that mean something, so we really love the brand-new Norton Library edition of Louisa May Alcott’s #LittleWomen edited by @sblackwood.bsky.social!

Head to the link in our bio to get reacquainted with the March family & their lasting literary legacy!

28.01.2025 20:03 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
Book cover is red yellow blue and very minimalist. Event is January 24 at 6:30 at the Print Factory in Bellefonte.

Book cover is red yellow blue and very minimalist. Event is January 24 at 6:30 at the Print Factory in Bellefonte.

If you’re in the area tomorrow evening (Penn State main/Bellefonte), come talk with me and @hesterblum.bsky.social about my antiracist classroom @nortonlibrary.bsky.social edition of Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises.

24.01.2025 03:48 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I have revised the translations and worked with a new editor Fred Neuhouserβ€”the 2nd Discourse is out in the Norton Library. They have the ms. for the Social Contract.

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The Sun Also Rises is one of our Norton Library spotlight titles!

10.01.2025 14:47 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
W. W. Norton booth at MLA featuring Norton Critical Editions, Norton Library titles, Norton Anthologies, and more

W. W. Norton booth at MLA featuring Norton Critical Editions, Norton Library titles, Norton Anthologies, and more

Happy first day of #MLA2025! We are here with @modernlanguage.bsky.social in Booth 500A-502A and want to talk about books and podcasts with you!

We are doing a Norton Library spotlight at 10AM and everyone is welcome at our cocktail hour this afternoon starting at 4:30PM!

10.01.2025 14:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Don't worry @vernakale.bsky.social, we are on the case for ALLLL the booth photographs!

09.01.2025 15:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

New year, new @modernlanguage.bsky.social conference incoming! We, along with the lovely @nortonlibrary.bsky.social team and the rest of Norton Literature, can't wait to see you all at Booths 500A & 502A at MLA in ONE week! If you'll be there, let us know! Swing by for our series spotlights & party!

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