A Norton critical edition

An annotated edition complete with textual commentary, seventeen poems and selections from Emily Bronte's diary, and contemporary reviews of the novel.

Presents an authoritative text of "Little Women, " a novel which chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England, and includes background and contexts materials, a selection of critical reviews, a chronology of the author's life, and a bibliography.

The epic poem recounting the experiences of Odysseus during his return from the Trojan War.

Presents an annotated selection from Geoffrey Chaucer's medieval classic, "The Canterbury Tales, " a series of stories narrated by pilgrims on their way to the shrine of Saint Thomas a Becket in Canterbury Cathedral. Includes the general prologue, sources and analogues, and critical essays.

A comprehensive collection of critical commentaries on Joseph Conrad's classic novel "Heart of Darkness, " including those from contemporaries Henry James and Virginia Woolf; along with the complete text of the novel.

Includes the text and textual notes on Walden and Civil disobedience plus critical reviews and essays.

Contains the text of the novel, letters, and critical essays.

Presents John Milton's epic poem "Paradise Lost," in which Satan attempts to exact revenge on God after being cast out of Heaven, and includes explanatory notes; source texts such as Bible selections and prose works by Milton; and forty-eight works of criticism by such figures as John Dryden, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, T. S. Eliot, C. S. Lewis, Northrop Frye, Stanley Fish, and Helen Vendler.