(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) Introduction by Alfred KazanFirst published in 1910, Howards End is the novel that earned E. M.Forster recognition as a major writer. At its heart lie twofamilies--the wealthy and business-minded Wilcoxes and the culturedand idealistic Schlegels. When the beautiful and independent Hel...
This volume is to be welcomed，not just as the first of its kind but also as a scholarly and dynamic account of the value of a theatrical tradition in many ways different from that of other European countries，Journal of the society for Pirandello Studies。 With the aim of providing a comprehensive history of Italian dr...
Feminism has transformed the academic study of literature, fundamentally altering the canon of what is taught and setting new agendas for literary analysis. In this authoritative history of feminist literary criticism, leading scholars chart the development of the practice from the middle ages to the present. The fir...
The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare’s most beautiful plays and, conversely, his ugliest. Juxtaposed within the same conceptual frame are heavenly and musical harmonies, romantic love, materialism, and racism. This Norton Critical Edition has been carefully edited to make The Merchant of Venice, its surrounding...
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Aanton Chekhov, widely hailed asthe supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works longenough to be called short novels-here brought together in onevolume for the first time, in a masterly new translation by theaward-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.The...
FROM AWARD-WINNING TRANSLATORS, Amasterful newtranslation--never before pub-lished---of the novel in which FyodorDostoevskyset out to portray a truly beautiful soul. Just two years after completing CrimeandPunishment, Dostoevsky produced a second novelwith a verydifferent man at its center. In...
The thirty-four stories in this volume span Chekhov’s creative career. They present a wide spectrum of comic and serious themes and a variety of techniques. (His short novels, available in another Norton volume, Seven Short Novels by Chekhov, have been omitted.) Two of the stories have been translated for this edition ...
Winner of the Whitbread Prize, Seamus Heaney’s translation "accomplishes what before now had seemed impossible: a faithful rendering that is simultaneously an original and gripping poem in its own right" (New York Times Book Review). The translation that "rides boldly through the reefs of scholarship" (The Observer) is...
Set in the magical Wessex landscape so familiar from ThomasHardy’s early work, Tess of the D’Urbervilles is uniqueamong his great novels for the intense feeling that he lavishedupon his heroine, Tess, a pure woman betrayed by love. Hardy pouredall of his profound empathy for both humanity and the rhythms ofnatural li...
Because of its frank treatment of human sexuality and itsunflinching fatalism, Jude the Obscure aroused such a stormof controversy upon its publication in 1895 that, partly inresponse, Thomas Hardy abandoned the art of novel-writingaltogether and devoted the rest of his life to poetry. Though wehave come a long way i...
From AudioFile Clym Yeobright, native of Egdon Heath, returns from the brightsociety of Paris and, as any reader of Hardy knows, all is notsmooth. He is quickly taken by and marries the one woman he shouldnot--Eustacia Vye. The suffering that follows is mitigated somewhatby the ending, but more by the mastery of Ala...
Set against the backdrop of beautiful Baroque Rome, Secrets of Angels & Demons takes you inside the Vatican to see how the process of conclave and papal selection really works – and who may be elected the next time white smoke is seen at the Vatican. Readers will explore the world of Bernini, master artist of the Baroq...
In 1945, W. H. Auden remarked that Kafka stands in the same relation to his century as Shakespeare does to his—Kafka is the representative of the twentieth century, the poet who gives it its voice. This Norton Critical Edition is based on new translations by leading Kafka scholar and translator Stanley Corngold. Thirty...
Ibsen ascended to the first ranks of European writers in the late nineteenth century and has remained there ever since. The Norton Critical Edition includes five major plays spanning Ibsen’s long career in recent translations by Brian Johnston (Peer Gynt, The Wild Duck, and The Master Builder) and Brian Johnston and Ri...
The astounding yet true rags-to-riches saga of a homeless father who raised and cared for his son on the mean streets of San Francisco and went on to become a crown prince of Wall Street At the age of twenty, Milwaukee native Chris Gardner, just out of the Navy, arrived in San Francisco to pursue a promising career in ...
The text is the authoritative version used in the Collected Works published in 1921, which Conrad prepared from a 1910 reprint of the original English version of 1898. Corrections and emendations have been made on the basis of a thorough collation of all extant versions of the novel. The text is annotated and is follow...
Christine de Pizan (ca. 1364-ca. 1421) is Europe’s first professional woman writer. She wrote an astonishing body of work in many genres, including lyric poetry, allegorical dream visions, history, political treatises, and biography. This Norton Critical Edition presents selections from eighteen of Christine’s major wo...
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