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Literature lovers! Join us TOMORROW for a discussion on the enduring legacy of Voltaire's Candide in classrooms around the world with editor Nicholas Cronk (Oxford University).
REGISTER HERE: bit.ly/4aDxdvI
I highly recommend the @nortoncriticals.bsky.social version of Leaves of Grass as it has both the 1855 original (which we are reading) AND the later, much larger 1893 edition plus supplementary essays.
It also has line numbers which will make referencing certain lines much easier.
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THE WASTE LAND T. S. ELIOT EDITED BY MICHAEL NORTH A NORTON CRITICAL EDITION
I highly recommend the Norton critical editions of books if you’re like me and you don’t know what you don’t know.
There’s SO much there and it makes art literacy and media interpretation more accessible.
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!
🫡It's an honor for us to have such wonderful longtime fans!
Screen shot of the Third Edition of the Norton Critical Edition of Moby Dick
This is a very cool edition of Moby Dick. It footnotes a LOT of the more obscure words and phrases and includes several reviews, biographical sketches and papers that discuss the themes and such.
🐳#md #booksky
The Norton Critical Edition of THE TALE OF GENJI by Murasaki Shikibu. It features an illustration of women wearing flowing kimonos.
2026: The Year of Genji!
(and this time I •mean• it!)
Second edn of Lynn Staley’s Book of Margery Kempe for Norton
Laura Varnam’s essay on Margery Kempe
Contents list of criticism in Staley’s Margery Kempe edn
I am ✨over the moon✨that both @laurakalas.bsky.social & I have critical extracts from our Margery Kempe essays in the new edn of Lynn Staley’s Norton Critical Edn of Margery’s Book! 🤩 I bought the first edn as an MA student and still use it to this day, so it’s a HUGE honour to be in the new one! 🙏🏻
Join the editors of our Jane Austen Norton Critical Editions tomorrow at 1 PM ET for a very exciting roundtable discussion on Jane Austen's legacy!
Audience members are encouraged to ask questions in an open Q&A with our editors. Bring your most pressing questions and register here: bit.ly/48W7nkI
I was worried this would say we were no longer friends and then I'd have to fly over to our shelves, crack open the In Memoriam NCE, and sob a little!
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...
A photo of 2 books - Milton's Paradise Lost and Edmund Spenser's Poetry (both Norton Critical Editions) - lying flat on a light wood desk. A pc monitor, lit advent candle are in the background
It's been an epic week: lectures/seminars on 'The Faerie Queene', Book 2 and 'Paradise Lost', Books 1 and 2
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Frankenstein Third Norton Critical Edition Novel by Mary Shelley and edited by J. Paul Hunter
Reading some of the changes between the 1818 and 1831 versions side by side on the same pages instead of separate books helped me see and understand the differences so much better. I love the penguin classics of the 1818 text but I think this one is my fav edition now!
Time for a re-read
A well-worn copy of a Norton Critical Edition of Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes. It's the Ornsby translation and it has a black and white cover.
Finished reading this on the train ride home and definitely teared up at the end. I don't have anything to say about it that hasn't already been said a million times by people much smarter than me, but what a marvelous and endlessly entertaining work of fiction!
Apropos of nothing, let me celebrate Anna More's fantastic Norton Critical Edition of Sor Juana's Selected Works. Terrific edition and a great selection of the recent scholarship on a complex figure. wwnorton.com/books/978039...
So glad that your copy arrived so quickly! I'm always happy to help!
My thanks to @nortoncriticals.bsky.social for this beautiful copy of Wuthering Heights. Looking forward to previewing this for next semester.
Hi @stephfunnylaughter.bsky.social! If you can message me, I can get that set up for you!
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.
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