Norton critical edition

An annotated translation of the classic treatise on political power, statecraft, and the qualities of the ideal ruler; with notes clarifying Machiavelli's sources and the historical and political context of his time, and including several critical articles.

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

Presents the 1818 text of the novel about a monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies, who develops a mind of his own and learns to loathe himself and hate his creator; and includes explanatory annotations, a selection of related writings, and a collection of critical essays.

Presents an annotated edition of the 1845 treatise championing women's rights; and includes selections from other writings by Fuller, and a collection of critical essays.

Contains fully annotated reprints of twenty-one tales and sketches by nineteenth-century American author Nathaniel Hawthorne; selected commentary by the author on his works; and several examples of criticism from contemporaries such as Herman Melville and Edgar Allan Poe and more recent writers.

Presents an annotated edition of the nineteenth-century novel about Uncle Tom, an African-American man who never lost his dignity under the inhumane circumstances of slavery; and includes backgrounds and contexts, and a selection of critical essays.

Presents the annotated 1983 Clarendon edition of Thomas Hardy's nineteenth-century story of a young woman who finds herself the victim of fate and of forces beyond her control in nineteenth-century England, and includes critical reviews and interpretations, seven poems by Hardy, and other reference materials.