Books from Norton Critical Editions

  • The Decameron
    The Decameron
    By Giovanni Boccaccio

    Winner of the 2014 PEN USA Literary Award for Translation This Norton Critical Edition includes: - Fifty-five judiciously chosen stories from Wayne A. Rebhorn's translation of The Decameron.

  • Mrs. Dalloway
    Mrs. Dalloway
    By Virginia Woolf

    "This Norton Critical Edition of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway is based on the first American edition from 1925.

  • The Jew of Malta
    The Jew of Malta
    By Christopher Marlowe

    The text of The Jew of Malta -- Textual notes -- Contexts. Theater and Marlowe -- Machiavelli and Mediterranean identities -- Ideas of the Jew -- Criticism.

  • Frankenstein: The 1818 Text, Contexts, Criticism
    Frankenstein: The 1818 Text, Contexts, Criticism
    By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

    The article on radical science also helped me compare Frankenstein to Alasdair Gray's Poor Things. I highly recommend this edition of Frankenstein and will use it in the future." -Joshua Beall, Rutgers University

  • The Turn of the Screw
    The Turn of the Screw
    By Henry James

    "This admirable new and expanded Norton Critical Edition, with its judiciously selected and expertly curated secondary materials, both historical and critical, and accompanied by Jonathan Warren's excellent introduction, is an invaluable ...