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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 Bérubé, we discuss the enduring legacy of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein—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

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!
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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!

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!

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...

Scarlet A buttons

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

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! 😅

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...

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...

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...

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.
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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. !

TYSM for knowing the exact vibe we were aiming for!

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!

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.

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

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

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!

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

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!

Hi @tracyquannyc.bsky.social! I’m happy to say that we already have a landing page, which you can see and share here: seagull.wwnorton.com/nlpodcast! If you scroll down, all of our episodes are hosted on the landing page!

All I want for the holidays is to know who will come and see us at the @modernlanguage.bsky.social conference in New Orleans!

Prof. Stephanie Insley Hershinow @sinsleyh.bsky.social's edition of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility is out now with @nortonlibrary.bsky.social! Order your copy here: wwnorton.com/books/978039...

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Copy of Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises Norton Library edition against a backdrop of other Norton Library titles

For sale: The Sun Also Rises (The Norton Library edition), Never Read

#TheSunAlsoRises by #ErnestHemingway joins the #NortonLibrary series with @vernakale.bsky.social’s incredibly accessible introduction! Find out more at the link in our bio! #NewBookTuesday

Great Expectations (The Norton Library) Part of the Norton Library series, Great Expectations (The Norton Library), Charles Dickens, Daniel Wright, 9781324046721

My edition of Great Expectations for the Norton Library series now has a webpage, a delightfully purple cover, and a projected publication date of July 1, 2025. Think about it for your Fall 2025 syllabus needs. (Or just because it's a pretty colour!)

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Planning for Spring 2025? If you adopt my Norton Library edition Sun Also Rises (pub date Dec 15!) for your class or book club, I’ll be glad to drop in via Zoom for a Q&A. Contact me via my PSU email to make arrangements.