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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Norton Critical Edition by Mark Twain; Thomas Cooley (Editor)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Norton Critical Editions | Reading Level: near fine
Mark Twain's characters are surprising, unforgettable and truly human. The character Huckleberry Finn is based on one of Twain's childhood friends. Twain writes Mark Twain, the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910) was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publi ...Show more
Byron's Poetry by George Gordon Byron; Frank D. McConnell
$10.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Norton Critical Editions Ser. | Reading Level: good
The critical essays offer an integrated view of Byron's achievement as well as analyses of its different facets. Published for the first time is Bergen Evans's general essay "Lord Byron's Pilgrimage"; other essays are by John D. Jump, Michael G. Cooke, Francis Berry, Robert F. Gleckner, James R. Thompso ...Show more
Dubliners by James Joyce; Margot Norris
$16.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Norton Critical Editions Ser.
With an essay by J. I. M. Stewart. 'Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears ... But now it sounded to me like the name of some maleficent and sinful being. It filled me with fear, and yet I longed to be nearer to it ...Show more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Norton Critical Editions | Reading Level: good
The "Jane Eyre" text reprinted in this edition is that of the 1848 third edition text - the last to be corrected by Bronte. The critical material accompanying the novel includes six essays and letters from the author.
Modern Irish Drama by John P. Harrington
$14.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Norton Critical Editions Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Modern Irish Drama reprints the complete texts of twelve plays by the major Irish playwrights - W.B.Yeats, Lady Gregory, J.M.Synge, Bernard Shaw, Sean O'Casey, Brendan Behan, Samuel Beckett and Brian Friel. The texts are annotated with explanatory notes on Anglo-Irish usage, place names, historical figu ...Show more
Piers Plowman by William Langland; Elizabeth Robertson (Editor); Stephen H. A. Shepherd
$18.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Norton Critical Editions | Reading Level: very good
Piers Plowman, William Langland's visionary medieval work about one man's quest for the true Christian life, is an allegorical journey through dream visions and visions within dreams. During the course of his journey, the narrator (William Langland) meets Piers Plowman, who gradually reveals himself to ...Show more
The Awakening - The authoritative text by Kate Chopin
$12.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Norton Critical Editions | Reading Level: very good
The Canterbury Tales: Fifteen Tales and the General Prologue by Geoffrey Chaucer
$18.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: Norton Critical Editions
The most admired of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales are presented here in the original language but with spelling and annotations for modern readers. Sources and background information are included for the General Prologue and for most of the tales, enabling students to understand them in the light of releva ...Show more
The Classic Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: Norton Critical Editions Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This Norton Critical Edition collects forty-four fairy tales, from the fifth century to the present. The Classic Fairy Tales focuses on six tale types: "Little Red Riding Hood," "Beauty and the Beast," "Snow White," "Cinderella," "Bluebeard," and "Hansel and Gretel," and presents multicultural variants ...Show more
The Classic Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar (ed.)
$16.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: Norton Critical Editions Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Fairy tales shape our cultures and enrich our imaginations; their narrative stability and cultural durability are incontestable. This Norton Critical Edition collects seven different tale types, including multicultural versions and literary rescriptings. Along with the introductions and annotations by M ...Show more
The Prelude: 1799, 1805, 1850 by William Wordsworth
$14.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Norton Critical Editions | Reading Level: good to very good
There are no fewer than seventeen manuscripts of The Prelude in the Wordsworth library at Grasmere. Working with these materials, the editors have prepared an accurate reading version of 1799 and have newly edited from manuscripts the texts of 1805 and 1850-thus freeing the latter poem from the unwarran ...Show more
The Scarlet Letter and other writings by Nathaniel Hawthorne
$12.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Norton Critical Editions | Reading Level: very good
This Norton Critical Edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s most widely read novel appears during the bicentennial anniversary year of his birth. The text of The Scarlet Letter is based on the 1850 third edition, the first set in stereotype plates and the basis of subsequent printings in Hawthorne’s lifetime ...Show more