Pride and Prejudice (Fourth International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pride and Prejudice (Fourth International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) write by Jane Austen. This book was released on 2016-06. Pride and Prejudice (Fourth International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Norton Critical Edition of Pride and Prejudice has been revised to reflect the most current scholarly approaches to Austen’s most widely read novel. The text is that of the 1813 first edition, accompanied by revised and expanded explanatory annotations. This Norton Critical Edition also includes: · Biographical portraits of Austen by members of her family and, new to the Fourth Edition, those by Jon Spence (Becoming Jane Austen) and Paula Byrne (The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things). · Fourteen critical essays, eleven of them new to the Fourth Edition, reflecting the finest current scholarship. Contributors include Janet Todd, Andrew Elfenbein, Felicia Bonaparte, and Tiffany Potter, among others. · “Writers on Austen”—a new section of brief comments by Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf, Henry James, and others. · A Chronology and revised and expanded Selected Bibliography.
Jane Eyre (Fourth International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)
Jane Eyre (Fourth International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jane Eyre (Fourth International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) write by Charlotte Brontë. This book was released on 2016-06-27. Jane Eyre (Fourth International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The Brontës' gifted biographer provides us with another superlative Norton Critical Edition of Charlotte Brontë's classic novel. For the classroom and for the general reader, there's no better way to experience the context in which Jane Eyre was written, illuminating modern commentary, and the novel itself in an authoritative text."—Fred Kaplan, Queens College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York This Norton Critical Edition includes: -The third-edition text (1848), the last corrected by Charlotte Brontë, accompanied by revised and expanded explanatory footnotes. -"Contexts," highlighting Jane Eyre as a bildungsroman through diary entries and letters by the author about her experiences as a student, teacher, and governess as well as her feelings about friendship, love, and writing. -Five major critical interpretations by Virginia Woolf, Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, Susan Meyer, Carla Kaplan, and Kelly A. Marsh. -A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography
Pride and Prejudice (International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)
Pride and Prejudice (International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pride and Prejudice (International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) write by Jane Austen. This book was released on 2016-04-04. Pride and Prejudice (International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The text of Pride and Prejudice is the 1813 first edition text. "Backgrounds and Sources" includes biographical portraits of Austen by members of her family and by acclaimed biographers Claire Tomalin and David Nokes. Seventeen of Austen’s letters--eight of them new to the Third Edition--allow readers to glimpse the close-knit society that was Austen’s world, both in life and in her writing. Samples of Austen’s early writing allow readers to trace her growth as a writer as well as to read her fiction comparatively. "Criticism" features nineteen assessments of the novel, seven of them new to the Third Edition. Among them is an interview with Colin Firth on the recent BBC television adaptation of the novel. Also included are pieces by Richard Whately, Margaret Oliphant, Richard Simpson, D. W. Harding, Dorothy Van Ghent, Alistair Duckworth, Stuart Tave, Marilyn Butler, Nina Auerbach, Susan Morgan, Claudia L. Johnson, Susan Fraiman, Deborah Kaplan, Tara Goshal Wallace, Cheryl L. Nixon, David Spring, Edward Ahearn, and Donald Gray. A Chronology-new to the Third Edition-and a Selected Bibliography are also included.
Wuthering Heights (Fourth International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)
Wuthering Heights (Fourth International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wuthering Heights (Fourth International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) write by Emily Brontë. This book was released on 2016-04-04. Wuthering Heights (Fourth International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The text of the novel is based on the first edition of 1847. For the Fourth Edition, the editor collated the 1847 text with the two modern texts (Norton’s William J. Sale collation and the Clarendon), and found a great number of variants, including accidentals. This discovery led to changes in the body of the Norton Critical Edition text that are explained in the preface. New to "Backgrounds and Contexts" are additional letters, a compositional chronology, related prose, and reviews of the 1847 text. "Criticism" collects five important assessments of Wuthering Heights, three of them new to the Fourth Edition, including Lin Haire-Sargeant’s essay on film adaptations of the novel.
Twelve Years a Slave (First International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)
Twelve Years a Slave (First International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Twelve Years a Slave (First International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) write by Solomon Northup. This book was released on 2016-12-15. Twelve Years a Slave (First International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This Norton Critical Edition of Solomon Northup’s harrowing autobiography is based on the 1853 first edition. It is accompanied by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Kevin Burke’s introduction and detailed explanatory footnotes. The Norton Critical Edition also includes: · The illustrations printed in the original book. · Contemporary sources (1853—62), among them newspaper accounts of Northup’s kidnapping and ordeal and commentary by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Thomas W. MacMahon. · A Genealogy of Secondary Sources (1880-2015) presenting twenty-four voices spanning three centuries on the memoir’s major themes. Contributors include George Washington Williams, Marion Wilson Starling, Kenneth Stampp, Robert B. Stepto, Trish Loughran, and David Fiske, Clifford W. Brown, Jr., and Rachel Seligman, among others. · The 2013 film adaptation—12 Years a Slave—fully considered, with criticism and major reviews of the film as well as Henry Louis Gates's three interviews with its director, Steve McQueen. · A Chronology and Selected Bibliography.
