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A classic works reprint series by W. W. Norton & Company, Independent & Employee-Owned. Share what you're teaching & your dream NCEs! Read along with us here: seagull.wwnorton.com/nortoncritical…

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Norton Critical Editions @nortoncriticals.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
How do early American seduction novels continue to speak to questions of gender and sexuality, freedom, and identity today? And did they predict the #MeToo era? Editor and associate professor at New York University Bryan Waterman reveals all. Listen here: seagull.wwnorton.com/CoquetteWork...
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Norton Critical Editions @nortoncriticals.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Happening today!
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Norton Critical Editions @nortoncriticals.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Join editor @waterman.bsky.social (NYU) TOMORROW for a discussion on Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette and The Boarding School! Pre-register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Left side: Decorative Icon Text: Workshop: October 1 - 4 p.m. ET/1 p.m. PT The Coquette and the Boarding School: A Norton Critical Edition Speakers Series Event Bryan Waterman New York University Right side Book Cover of Hannah Webster Foster The Coquette and the Boarding School and video camera icon
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Bryan Waterman @waterman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thursday, 10/1 at 4PM Eastern I'll be talking about Hannah Webster Foster's THE COQUETTE & why c18 seduction novels still have lessons to teach us (though perhaps not those they were designed to convey). Pre-register here & share with students if you happen to be in seduction mode this semester!
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: The Coquette and the Boarding School: A Norton Critical Edition Speakers Series Event. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joinin...
Join editor Bryan Waterman (New York University) for a discussion of the enduring legacy of the works of Hannah Webster Foster as America 250 comes to a close. How do seduction novels of the early Ame...
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Norton Critical Editions @nortoncriticals.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Join editor Daniel Donoghue (Harvard University) tomorrow for a discussion on the enduring legacy Beowulf and the 20th anniversary of Seamus Heaney's groundbreaking translation of the epic poem! Make sure to bring your questions for an open Q&A with Professor Donoghue! REGISTER HERE: bit.ly/4sIajtv
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Norton Critical Editions @nortoncriticals.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Literature lovers! Join us TOMORROW for a discussion on the enduring legacy of Voltaire's Candide in classrooms around the world with editor Nicholas Cronk (Oxford University). REGISTER HERE: bit.ly/4aDxdvI
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B. Kenn @crashtheschedule.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I highly recommend the @nortoncriticals.bsky.social version of Leaves of Grass as it has both the 1855 original (which we are reading) AND the later, much larger 1893 edition plus supplementary essays. It also has line numbers which will make referencing certain lines much easier. 🌿📖
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Leaves of Grass: A Norton Critical Edition
Leaves of Grass: A Norton Critical Edition [Whitman, Walt, Moon, Michael, Bradley, Sculley, Blodgett, Harold W.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Leaves of Grass: A Norton Critical Edition
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Mari 🥞 @marisbumf.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I highly recommend the Norton critical editions of books if you’re like me and you don’t know what you don’t know. There’s SO much there and it makes art literacy and media interpretation more accessible.
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Norton Critical Editions @nortoncriticals.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Are you at #MLA26 and in desperate need of good books, conversation, & a brand new Jane Austen poster for your office? Swing by the Norton booth! We have team members for @nortonliterature.bsky.social & @nortonlibrary.bsky.social here with us & I promise we are not just anthropomorphic seagulls!
Norton Booth with textbooks on display
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B. Kenn @crashtheschedule.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
This is a very cool edition of Moby Dick. It footnotes a LOT of the more obscure words and phrases and includes several reviews, biographical sketches and papers that discuss the themes and such. 🐳#md #booksky
Screen shot of the Third Edition of the Norton Critical Edition of Moby Dick
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Joe Pretty Scary, Kids! Phelan 🎃 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
2026: The Year of Genji! (and this time I •mean• it!)
The Norton Critical Edition of THE TALE OF GENJI by Murasaki Shikibu.  It features an illustration of women wearing flowing kimonos.
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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
I am ✨over the moon✨that both @laurakalas.bsky.social & I have critical extracts from our Margery Kempe essays in the new edn of Lynn Staley’s Norton Critical Edn of Margery’s Book! 🤩 I bought the first edn as an MA student and still use it to this day, so it’s a HUGE honour to be in the new one! 🙏🏻
Second edn of Lynn Staley’s Book of Margery Kempe for NortonLaura Varnam’s essay on Margery KempeContents list of criticism in Staley’s Margery Kempe edn
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Norton Critical Editions @nortoncriticals.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Join the editors of our Jane Austen Norton Critical Editions tomorrow at 1 PM ET for a very exciting roundtable discussion on Jane Austen's legacy! Audience members are encouraged to ask questions in an open Q&A with our editors. Bring your most pressing questions and register here: bit.ly/48W7nkI
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Norton Critical Editions @nortoncriticals.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Do you have students interested in #publishing? Have them apply to our Spring 2026 Hybrid Internship! Our interns are paid, they get hands on experience, can participate in education sessions, & they can meet the anthropomorphic seagull behind this account! Apply here: wwnorton.com/careers/nort...
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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
It's been an epic week: lectures/seminars on 'The Faerie Queene', Book 2 and 'Paradise Lost', Books 1 and 2 👑😈
A photo of 2 books - Milton's Paradise Lost and Edmund Spenser's Poetry (both Norton Critical Editions) - lying flat on a light wood desk. A pc monitor, lit advent candle are in the background
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Tray 🖤🦇 @multifangirll.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Reading some of the changes between the 1818 and 1831 versions side by side on the same pages instead of separate books helped me see and understand the differences so much better. I love the penguin classics of the 1818 text but I think this one is my fav edition now!
Frankenstein Third Norton Critical Edition
Novel by Mary Shelley and edited by J. Paul Hunter
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Sean @huckelcommasean.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Time for a re-read
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victoria winters #3 @godwhatamess.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Finished reading this on the train ride home and definitely teared up at the end. I don't have anything to say about it that hasn't already been said a million times by people much smarter than me, but what a marvelous and endlessly entertaining work of fiction!
A well-worn copy of a Norton Critical Edition of Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes. It's the Ornsby translation and it has a black and white cover.
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Karen Graubart @kbgraubart.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Apropos of nothing, let me celebrate Anna More's fantastic Norton Critical Edition of Sor Juana's Selected Works. Terrific edition and a great selection of the recent scholarship on a complex figure. wwnorton.com/books/978039...
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Selected Works
A wealth of background and analytical material makes Sor Juana's proto-feminist writings, newly translated, all the more compelling., Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Selected Works, A Norton Critical Edit...
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Steph, M. A. @stephfunnylaughter.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
My thanks to @nortoncriticals.bsky.social for this beautiful copy of Wuthering Heights. Looking forward to previewing this for next semester.
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Morgan Wallace @morganwallace.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Just completed THE SUFFERINGS OF YOUNG WERTHER by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated from the German by Stanley Corngold. This is the Norton Critical Edition.
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Norton Critical Editions @nortoncriticals.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Are you looking to create a literature course without using machine-learning applications? Read on to learn how Richard Haslam uses Norton Critical Editions and their contextual materials to support this goal and improve students' critical thinking skills: seagull.wwnorton.com/Haslam_Digit...
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“Digital Detox”: Using Norton Critical Editions To Promote Critical Thinking
The Norton Learning Blog has recently featured several posts that offer suggestions for generating greater classroom success by integrating ChatGPT and similar machine-learning-applications. (I fin…
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Norton Critical Editions @nortoncriticals.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Let thine attention not stray—we have a brand-new Second Norton Critical Edition of The Book of Margery Kempe! Lynn Staley (Colgate University) new edition has everything a reader needs to study Margery Kempe’s genre-defining work between these two covers: wwnorton.com/books/978132...
Cover of The Book of Margery Kempe: A Norton Critical Edition, Second Edition edited by Lynn Staley against a green bush with red flowers. The cover image is a carving of a woman in a chapel doorway.
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Norton Critical Editions @nortoncriticals.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Join us today at 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 AM PT for a very special NCE Speakers Series Event on Mariano Azuela's novel of the Mexican Revolution, The Underdogs! Editor Ilan Stavans will talk about the novels enduring legacy and will do a Q&A! Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Norton Critical Editions @nortoncriticals.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Return to Cane, Jean Toomer’s classic genre-bending modernist masterpiece, with the brand-new Third Norton Critical Edition! Revised by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. & Jesse McCarthy, this edition features everything students need for in-depth study: wwnorton.com/books/978132...
New third Norton Critical Edition of Jean Toomer’s Cane featuring a portrait of Jean Toomer is held up against a grey and white textured wallpaper. #newbooktuesday #pubday
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Norton Critical Editions @nortoncriticals.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
If your summer Friday is in need of some serious excitement, join the Hemingway Society for a morning webinar on #AFarewelltoArms! Their panel includes our Norton Critical Editions editor Marc K. Dudley and our @nortonlibrary.bsky.social editor Mark Cirino! www.hemingwaysociety.org/hemingway-so...
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Hemingway Society Summer Webinar on Editing A Farewell to Arms | The Hemingway Society
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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Norton Critical Edition of Mansfield Park: 320 pages of novel. Nearly 200 pages of DVD extras. Impressive
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Kathleen Carr Foster @kathleencarrfoster.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Oh, how I love a dog-eared Norton Critical edition. #books #writers
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Alex 🌱 @adikelsky.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
It arrived!
Mrs dalloway, norton critical edition
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Lynn Persists @lynnpersists.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Sudden, powerful rush of nostalgia for Norton Critical Editions.
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Rachael "Syril's Beret" @rachael1918.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Think I might have discovered the best cover for a Norton Critical Edition of all time? Truly outstanding.
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Kat Out of Hell @katriddell.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
“You have multiple copies of Wuthering Heights” okay, yes, fair, I do collect those, but also the Norton Critical Edition is a distinct book!!
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Norton Critical Editions @nortoncriticals.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
“I’d like to say WELCOME! Welcome to Illyria!” Join Viola and Sebastian as you’ve never seen them before in our First #NortonCriticalEdition of William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night! This edition has been expertly edited by Natasha Korda (Wesleyan Uni.)! Available now: wwnorton.com/books/978039...
Twelfth Night: A Norton Critical Edition by William Shakespeare book wearing a green and orange jester hat. The cover image is of Dame Eileen Mayo’s costume design for Malcolm—a green outfit with yellow tights and a black cape
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Norton Critical Editions @nortoncriticals.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Join Norton Critical Edition editors Robert S. Miola and @profshakespeare.bsky.social on William Shakespeare's birthday to discuss his impact on English Literature throughout the centuries and new ways to engage students in the classroom! REGISTER HERE: bit.ly/3EGNYZH
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Norton High School Group @wwnortonhs.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Dr. Pamela J. Franics outlines how the Norton Critical Edition of Wide Sargasso Sea brings a deeper analysis to #highschool #literature, including teaching the importance of critical literary lenses, context, and backstory when analyzing text. #LitRules seagull.wwnorton.com/WideSargasso...
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Norton Critical Editions @nortoncriticals.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Turn on, tune in, drop by the Norton website for your own copy of The Steppenwolf: A Norton Critical Edition, translated by Kurt Beals from Hermann Hesse’s mind-bending original German novel: wwnorton.com/books/978039...!
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Norton Critical Editions @nortoncriticals.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
For the 100th anniversary of #TheGreatGatsby, take a look at Gatsby in the classroom with our wonderful Norton Critical Edition contributor Andrew Newman! www.publicbooks.org/gatsby-100-a...
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Gatsby @ 100: American Classrooms, American Dreams? - Public Books
The story of Gatsby, Nick, Tom, and Daisy is also, much more importantly, part of the history of hundreds of millions of student readers and their teachers, spanning eight decades.
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Norton Critical Editions @nortoncriticals.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. —T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”
The Waste Land and Other Poems: A Norton Critical Edition held against greenery and flowers. The cover is a portrait of T. S. Eliot sitting in a chair.
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Norton Critical Editions @nortoncriticals.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Are you a student or recent grad interested in #publishing? Do you want to learn how the industry works across all departments in a publishing house? If so, take a look at our new Summer 2025 Internships! We offer in-person and remote options! Apply here: wwnorton.com/careers/nort...
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Norton Critical Editions @nortoncriticals.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Join translator & editor Kurt Beals TOMORROW for a discussion of why these famous German novels have endured as often taught & read works in classrooms around the world! There will be a Q&A with Kurt Beals in the second half of the event, so bring your best questions! REGISTER HERE: bit.ly/4bqsXyk
Workshop invitation to see Translator and Editor of The Steppenwolf: A Norton Critical Edition and All Quiet on the Western Front discuss these novels and their legacy.
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Norton Critical Editions @nortoncriticals.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Is this a brand-new #nortoncriticaledition which I see before me, the cover toward my hand? Delve into a brand-new third edition of the Scottish play we love to quote, #WilliamShakespeare’s Macbeth, edited once again by Robert S. Miola: wwnorton.com/books/978132...
Denzel Washington as Macbeth on the cover of the Norton Critical Edition of Macbeth. The book is on a white table with red backlighting.
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Lars Marius Garshol @larsga.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
I just finished this, and it was a thought-provoking and informative read in several different ways. I'll pass over most of that here, and look at Tolkien's relationship with the poem, which I think is deeper than is commonly realized. 🧵
The cover of "Beowulf - A Verse Translation", by Seamus Heaney, Norton Critical Edition.
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Matt Snee @mattsnee.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Dante's Inferno. I'm collecting these Norton Critical Editions like Beanie Babies. #booksky
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Norton Critical Editions @nortoncriticals.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
To put it in a nutshell, we are afflicted with a love of our brand-new #NortonCriticalEdition of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando! Carefully edited by Madelyn Detloff (Miami University), this volume has everything you need to study Orlando between its covers: wwnorton.com/books/978132...
Woman in a purple sweater holding a copy of Orlando by Virginia Woolf. The book cover is a costume sketch from a stage adaptation of this work of queer LGBTQ fiction.
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Norton Critical Editions @nortoncriticals.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
#LiteraryValentine fans, we love you against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be! We hope that you’ve enjoyed this year’s crop of #ncevalentines & that you don’t haunt the halls in a wedding dress for the next 365 days 💕
Two black silhouettes of a man and woman in a red heart surrounded by red and pink gears and it says of my love you may have great expectations
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Norton Critical Editions @nortoncriticals.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
If you thought we’d let #ValentinesDay pass without a William Shakespeare #literaryvalentine, you might as well be shipwrecked on the coast of Illyria! Send this #ncevalentine to the Twelfth Night fan in your life who loves She’s the Man, a flair for the dramatic, and happy endings!
Hand drawn valentine of William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night that says if music be the food of love play on.
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Norton Critical Editions @nortoncriticals.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Nothing says #HappyValentinesDay like Ernest Hemingway! Send this #ncevalentine to your #literaryvalentine down in the trenches of life with you who loves non-fiction books about WWI, who makes parodies of Baby Shoes, and not-so-secretly wants a six-toed cat!
A painting of two people embracing with the message I’ll never say farewell when I’m in your arms, Valentine over it
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Norton Critical Editions @nortoncriticals.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
If our #nortoncriticaledition team loved composition less, we might be able to talk about it more beyond our #ncevalentines. I declare after all there is no enjoyment like a Jane Austen Valentine 💕
Pink oval Valentine says says: They Say If I loved you less. I might be able to talk about it more. I Say Happy Valentine’s Day.
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Norton Critical Editions @nortoncriticals.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Our love of #ncevalentines was stronger by far than the love of those #valentines who are less literary than we! Send our tortured poet #literaryvalentine to your corvid friends, your Edgar Allan Poe super fans, and the readers in your life who keep a loving countdown to Halloween 🐦‍⬛
Black and white portrait of Edgar Allan Poe against a pink background saying Don’t go breakin my tell tale heart
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