Norton Critical Editions
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A classic works reprint series by W. W. Norton & Company, Independent & Employee-Owned. Share what you're teaching & your dream NCEs! Read along with us here: https://seagull.wwnorton.com/nortoncriticaleditions
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...
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...
September 16, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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...
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...
Editor Ilan Stavans will talk about the novels enduring legacy and will do a Q&A! Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
September 16, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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...
Editor Ilan Stavans will talk about the novels enduring legacy and will do a Q&A! Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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...
Revised by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. & Jesse McCarthy, this edition features everything students need for in-depth study: wwnorton.com/books/978132...
August 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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...
Revised by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. & Jesse McCarthy, this edition features everything students need for in-depth study: wwnorton.com/books/978132...
“I’d like to say WELCOME! Welcome to Illyria!”
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 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...
May 14, 2025 at 7:22 PM
“I’d like to say WELCOME! Welcome to Illyria!”
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 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
@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
April 22, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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
@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
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...!
April 15, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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...!
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”
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
—T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”
April 1, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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”
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
—T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”
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
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
March 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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
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
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...
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...
March 4, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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...
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...
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...
Carefully edited by Madelyn Detloff (Miami University), this volume has everything you need to study Orlando between its covers: wwnorton.com/books/978132...
February 18, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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...
Carefully edited by Madelyn Detloff (Miami University), this volume has everything you need to study Orlando between its covers: wwnorton.com/books/978132...
#LiteraryValentine fans, we love you against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be!
We hope that you’ve enjoyed this year’s crop of #ncevalentines & that you don’t haunt the halls in a wedding dress for the next 365 days 💕
We hope that you’ve enjoyed this year’s crop of #ncevalentines & that you don’t haunt the halls in a wedding dress for the next 365 days 💕
February 14, 2025 at 9:45 PM
#LiteraryValentine fans, we love you against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be!
We hope that you’ve enjoyed this year’s crop of #ncevalentines & that you don’t haunt the halls in a wedding dress for the next 365 days 💕
We hope that you’ve enjoyed this year’s crop of #ncevalentines & that you don’t haunt the halls in a wedding dress for the next 365 days 💕
If you thought we’d let #ValentinesDay pass without a William Shakespeare #literaryvalentine, you might as well be shipwrecked on the coast of Illyria!
Send this #ncevalentine to the Twelfth Night fan in your life who loves She’s the Man, a flair for the dramatic, and happy endings!
Send this #ncevalentine to the Twelfth Night fan in your life who loves She’s the Man, a flair for the dramatic, and happy endings!
February 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
If you thought we’d let #ValentinesDay pass without a William Shakespeare #literaryvalentine, you might as well be shipwrecked on the coast of Illyria!
Send this #ncevalentine to the Twelfth Night fan in your life who loves She’s the Man, a flair for the dramatic, and happy endings!
Send this #ncevalentine to the Twelfth Night fan in your life who loves She’s the Man, a flair for the dramatic, and happy endings!
Nothing says #HappyValentinesDay like Ernest Hemingway!
Send this #ncevalentine to your #literaryvalentine down in the trenches of life with you who loves non-fiction books about WWI, who makes parodies of Baby Shoes, and not-so-secretly wants a six-toed cat!
Send this #ncevalentine to your #literaryvalentine down in the trenches of life with you who loves non-fiction books about WWI, who makes parodies of Baby Shoes, and not-so-secretly wants a six-toed cat!
February 14, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Nothing says #HappyValentinesDay like Ernest Hemingway!
Send this #ncevalentine to your #literaryvalentine down in the trenches of life with you who loves non-fiction books about WWI, who makes parodies of Baby Shoes, and not-so-secretly wants a six-toed cat!
Send this #ncevalentine to your #literaryvalentine down in the trenches of life with you who loves non-fiction books about WWI, who makes parodies of Baby Shoes, and not-so-secretly wants a six-toed cat!
If our #nortoncriticaledition team loved composition less, we might be able to talk about it more beyond our #ncevalentines.
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like a Jane Austen Valentine 💕
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like a Jane Austen Valentine 💕
February 13, 2025 at 4:12 PM
If our #nortoncriticaledition team loved composition less, we might be able to talk about it more beyond our #ncevalentines.
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like a Jane Austen Valentine 💕
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like a Jane Austen Valentine 💕
Our love of #ncevalentines was stronger by far than the love of those #valentines who are less literary than we!
Send our tortured poet #literaryvalentine to your corvid friends, your Edgar Allan Poe super fans, and the readers in your life who keep a loving countdown to Halloween 🐦⬛
Send our tortured poet #literaryvalentine to your corvid friends, your Edgar Allan Poe super fans, and the readers in your life who keep a loving countdown to Halloween 🐦⬛
February 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Our love of #ncevalentines was stronger by far than the love of those #valentines who are less literary than we!
Send our tortured poet #literaryvalentine to your corvid friends, your Edgar Allan Poe super fans, and the readers in your life who keep a loving countdown to Halloween 🐦⬛
Send our tortured poet #literaryvalentine to your corvid friends, your Edgar Allan Poe super fans, and the readers in your life who keep a loving countdown to Halloween 🐦⬛
Don’t let anyone tell you that existentialist German Literature in translation can’t make a romantic #literaryvalentine!
Send this to the reader in your life who loves existential crises, autofiction, & brilliant contemporary translations (or those who love #ncevalentines of #TheSteppenwolf) 🐺
Send this to the reader in your life who loves existential crises, autofiction, & brilliant contemporary translations (or those who love #ncevalentines of #TheSteppenwolf) 🐺
February 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Don’t let anyone tell you that existentialist German Literature in translation can’t make a romantic #literaryvalentine!
Send this to the reader in your life who loves existential crises, autofiction, & brilliant contemporary translations (or those who love #ncevalentines of #TheSteppenwolf) 🐺
Send this to the reader in your life who loves existential crises, autofiction, & brilliant contemporary translations (or those who love #ncevalentines of #TheSteppenwolf) 🐺
We Macbeg your forgiveness valentines for waiting so long for this year’s batch of #NCEValentines! Tune in each day this week for new #literaryvalentines to send to your favorite #englishmajor!
This Scottish valentine can’t be said in a theater, so you could say it’s a forbidden love…
This Scottish valentine can’t be said in a theater, so you could say it’s a forbidden love…
February 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
We Macbeg your forgiveness valentines for waiting so long for this year’s batch of #NCEValentines! Tune in each day this week for new #literaryvalentines to send to your favorite #englishmajor!
This Scottish valentine can’t be said in a theater, so you could say it’s a forbidden love…
This Scottish valentine can’t be said in a theater, so you could say it’s a forbidden love…
Set sail with #JaneAusten’s most famous second chance romance—Persuasion! The all-new 3rd #nortoncriticaledition edited by Rae Greiner has engaging updates on naval imperialism, colonialism, the proliferation of the slave trade, & more!
Read along here: wwnorton.com/books/978132...
Read along here: wwnorton.com/books/978132...
January 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Set sail with #JaneAusten’s most famous second chance romance—Persuasion! The all-new 3rd #nortoncriticaledition edited by Rae Greiner has engaging updates on naval imperialism, colonialism, the proliferation of the slave trade, & more!
Read along here: wwnorton.com/books/978132...
Read along here: wwnorton.com/books/978132...
Today’s the day! We are here at @modernlanguage.bsky.social in booth 500A-502A and we want to talk books with you!
We’ll be doing a Norton Critical Edition spotlight at 2PM and everyone is welcome at our 4:30PM cocktail hour this afternoon!
We’ll be doing a Norton Critical Edition spotlight at 2PM and everyone is welcome at our 4:30PM cocktail hour this afternoon!
January 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Today’s the day! We are here at @modernlanguage.bsky.social in booth 500A-502A and we want to talk books with you!
We’ll be doing a Norton Critical Edition spotlight at 2PM and everyone is welcome at our 4:30PM cocktail hour this afternoon!
We’ll be doing a Norton Critical Edition spotlight at 2PM and everyone is welcome at our 4:30PM cocktail hour this afternoon!
🏝️If your New Year's resolution included an island vacation, check that off with our Norton Critical Edition of H. G. Wells's The Island of Doctor Moreau! This new edition features important selections on race, empire, science, & more!
Get your copy here: wwnorton.com/books/978039... #NewBookTuesday
Get your copy here: wwnorton.com/books/978039... #NewBookTuesday
January 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
🏝️If your New Year's resolution included an island vacation, check that off with our Norton Critical Edition of H. G. Wells's The Island of Doctor Moreau! This new edition features important selections on race, empire, science, & more!
Get your copy here: wwnorton.com/books/978039... #NewBookTuesday
Get your copy here: wwnorton.com/books/978039... #NewBookTuesday
🚨 This is not a drill or one of Moll’s clever cons! 🚨
This #NewBookTuesday you can order the brand-new 2nd #NortonCriticalEdition of Daniel Defoe’s epic #MollFlanders!
Editor Albert J. Rivero returns with a trove of new materials that even Moll herself couldn’t amass: wwnorton.com/books/978039...
This #NewBookTuesday you can order the brand-new 2nd #NortonCriticalEdition of Daniel Defoe’s epic #MollFlanders!
Editor Albert J. Rivero returns with a trove of new materials that even Moll herself couldn’t amass: wwnorton.com/books/978039...
December 3, 2024 at 4:31 PM
🚨 This is not a drill or one of Moll’s clever cons! 🚨
This #NewBookTuesday you can order the brand-new 2nd #NortonCriticalEdition of Daniel Defoe’s epic #MollFlanders!
Editor Albert J. Rivero returns with a trove of new materials that even Moll herself couldn’t amass: wwnorton.com/books/978039...
This #NewBookTuesday you can order the brand-new 2nd #NortonCriticalEdition of Daniel Defoe’s epic #MollFlanders!
Editor Albert J. Rivero returns with a trove of new materials that even Moll herself couldn’t amass: wwnorton.com/books/978039...