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Presents the complete text of Charles Dickens' classic novel along with background and source information and twenty essays that critically examine his work.

Contains an authoritative text of a poor stone carver, Jude Fawley, who is torn between his dreams of a university education and the desires of his own carnal nature and also includes background information on the novel as well as Hardy's nonfictional writings and poems and comments by critics on his other works.

"Since its first publication thirty-five years ago, the Norton Critical Edition of Charles Dickens' Hard Times has been enthusiastically received as both a notable work of Dickens scholarship and a reliable text for the classroom. For this Third Edition, the editors, Fred Kaplan and Sylvere Monod, have re-edited the 1854 first edition text in light of scholarly findings made in the decade since the Second Edition was published. In addition, the annotations...

"Moby Dick (1851) is an epic tale of the conflict between man and his fate. Captain Ahab's obsessive quest to destroy the great white whale that tore off his leg leads the Pequod and its crew to disaster. Melville's extraordinary narrative defies c1assification: it teems with ideas and imagery and the passion of its author."--Jacket.

"The Jungle's influence has been extraordinary for a literary work. Upton Sinclair's 1906 landmark novel is widely credited with awakening the public fury that led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act (1906), a watershed in consumer protection and government legislation. This story of the immigrant experience in the harrowing Chicago stockyards has drawn comment from historians, policymakers, and literary critics, and it is a widely assigned...

This Norton Critical Edition is based on Laurence Senelick's new translations of Chekhov's five major plays-Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard-and three of his one-act farces-"The Bear," "The Wedding," and "The Celebration." Each work is accompanied by explanatory annotations and by variant readings from earlier versions, including manuscript versions. Senelick's translations closely preserve Chekhov's careful...

In 1945, W. H. Auden remarked that Franz Kafka stands in the same relation to his century as Shakespeare does to his. Sixty years later, Kafka continues to be regarded as the most fully representative writer of the twentieth century; his voice articulates the mood of the modern experience. This Norton Critical Edition collects thirty of Kafka's best-known stories in new translations by Stanley Corngold, a leading Kafka scholar and translator. Each...