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The Norton Library @nortonlibrary.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Happy #NewBookTuesday! Our latest Norton library title is now available: the ancient Greek tragedy Antigone. This edition, translated by Sheila Murnaghan, is great for first-time readers and diehard Sophocles fans alike! wwnorton.com/books/978132...

Against a stone base of a Greek-style urn, book Sophocles's Antigone, Translated by Sheila Murnaghan. The book has a solid blue background, an orange stripe on the bottom. The author, title and translator's name are in the bottom half, the Norton seagull icon and "The Norton Library" in the top right corner.

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The Norton Library @nortonlibrary.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

What is punk? Is it rock music? Is it art? No, it’s transcendentalism! It’s Thoreau’s Walden! Learn more on the Norton Library Podcast—Parts 1 and 2 of our conversation with editor @jedpurdy.bsky.social are now available: www.buzzsprout.com/2129520/epis... www.buzzsprout.com/2129520/epis...

A podcast thumbnail graphic that says "Walden and Other Writings: The Norton Library Podcast."

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The Norton Library @nortonlibrary.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Strengthening academic belonging among your students early in the semester shapes not only how they experience your course, but how they see themselves as learners. Relieve your students’ sociocognitive bandwidth with these three research-informed changes. seagull.wwnorton.com/Academic-Bel...

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The Norton Library @nortonlibrary.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

According to author Jeff Sebo, our future relationship with AI can be understood through a deeper look into ethical and moral theory, human exceptionalism, and our relationship with animals. Learn how his students handle these topics in our latest Norton Learning Blog post. bit.ly/4cMvbuh

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Who Matters? Expanding the Moral Circle with Jeff Sebo

Does AI deserve the same rights as human beings? Author Jeff Sebo discusses how our future relationship with AI can be understood through a deeper look into ethical and moral theory, human exceptio…

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The Norton Library @nortonlibrary.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Request a recording of anthropologist Ashanté M. Reese's webinar focusing on her new title, Gather: Black Food, Nourishment, and the Art of Togetherness, the resilience of Black communities, and how gathering creates sustainable systemic change in food justice. seagull.wwnorton.com/GATHER_Works...

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The Norton Library @nortonlibrary.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Join anthropologist Ashanté M. Reese for a conversation about her new vision on food justice that centers the resilience of Black communities and recognizes the power of gathering to create sustainable systemic change. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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The Norton Library @nortonlibrary.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Request a recording of Professor Mehrsa Baradaran's conversation about her new Norton Shorts title "The Racial Wealth Gap," a concise history behind America's systemic economic issues and the forces driving apart the economic fortunes of American families. seagull.wwnorton.com/RacialWealth...

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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!

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The Norton Library @nortonlibrary.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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The Norton Library @nortonlibrary.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I will yet go forward without fear of this brand new Norton Library edition of John Bunyan’s #PilgrimsProgress! Edited by Margaret Sönser Breen and Andy Draycott, this is an accessible edition that gives readers a feel for The Pilgrim’s Progress as a 17th-century work: wwnorton.com/books/978039...

Green and yellow color blocked cover of John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress Norton Library Edition against a colorful bookcase featuring the spines of other Norton Library editions.

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The Norton Library @nortonlibrary.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement, we love our latest Norton Library edition of Charles Dickens’s famed novel Great Expectations, edited by Daniel Wright (University of Toronto): wwnorton.com/books/978132...! #NewBookTuesday

Purple and orange color blocked cover of Charles Dickens’s novel Great Expectations against a backdrop of purple and green flowers. Edited by Daniel Wright for The Norton Library.

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Verna Kale @vernakale.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Happy Fall Semester to those who celebrate! Here's your regular reminder that if you choose my @nortonlibrary.bsky.social Sun Also Rises edition for your reading list, I will be happy to Zoom in with your students or book club for a Q&A!

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The Norton Library @nortonlibrary.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

This narrative is no fiction—our brand-new edition of Harriet Jacobs’s stirring autobiography, Incidents In the Life of a Slave Girl is available now! Edited by @seminewblack.bsky.social, this Norton Library edition helps contextualize the narrative for modern readers: wwnorton.com/books/978039...

Green and orange color blocked cover of Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (The Norton Library) edited by Evie Shockley on a wooden table with a white background.

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Daniel Wright @dannybwright.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION. Think about this @nortonlibrary.bsky.social edition for all your 2025-26 teaching needs! wwnorton.com/books/978132...

A stack of several purple-and-yellow copies of Charles Dickens's GREAT EXPECTATIONS, edited by Daniel Wright, Norton Library edition

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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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Verna Kale @vernakale.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Congrats to Mark Cirino and NLE for this latest edition. NLE editions edited by subject experts and annotated especially for students. Assign texts from this series and feel good about keeping student book fees low and classroom text quality high!

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The Norton Library @nortonlibrary.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Lay down your TBR and pick up the brand-new Norton Library edition of Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, edited by the insightful & thought-provoking Mark Cirino! Read along here: wwnorton.com/books/978132... and tune into the Norton Library podcast in two weeks for our episodes on the novel!

Norton Library edition of A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, a modernist novel. The yellow and blue text cover is photographed on a brown background with a succulent and candle as decor

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Excited to hear @jsmurison.bsky.social’s talk about her new edition of The Scarlet Letter from Norton. Check out those scarlet A pinback buttons! 😅

New edition of The Scarlet Letter, a book with almost no plot but an extremely analytical narrator

Justine Murison giving a well-attended talk at the Rare Book library at the U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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The Norton Library @nortonlibrary.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

You already know the story of Homer’s The Iliad, but you can now experience the crushing grief of the world’s greatest war story anew! @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social’s gripping translation is now available as part of the Norton Library series. Get your copy here: wwnorton.com/books/978132...

Red and yellow cover of Emily Wilson’s translation of Homer’s The Iliad for the Norton Library series against a backdrop of yellow tulips.

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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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The Norton Library @nortonlibrary.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Join us for part 2 of @vernakale.bsky.social's incredible conversation with the Norton Library Podcast on Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises! You'll get hot takes, Taylor Swift lyrics, a look into Hemingway's mindset while writing the novel, and more! www.buzzsprout.com/2129520/epis...

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Taylor Swift's "Anti-Hero" and Hemingway's Flawed Characters (The Sun Also Rises, Part 2) - The Norton Library Podcast

In Part 2 of our discussion on Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, editor Verna Kale returns to discuss the vintage bullfighting posters that inspired the cover of the Norton Library edition, a "ho...

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Theo Ward @theoward.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I loved taking part in #APSTogether reading groups with A Public Space during the pandemic, and it's been a while since I joined in. Remedying that tomorrow with Emily Wilson's translation of Homer's The Odyssey. apstogether.substack.com/p/the-odysse...

The blue and orange cover of the Norton Library edition of The Odyssey by Homer, translation by Emily Wilson.

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Stacey Amo @staceyamo.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

The best color combo to date in the @wwnorton.bsky.social Norton Library series arrived this week. I’ve never finished Little Women as an adult. !

A collection of colorful Norton Library editions with an emphasis on the lilac and navy edition of Little Women

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The Norton Library @nortonlibrary.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

The Norton Library team loves good strong words that mean something, so we really love the brand-new Norton Library edition of Louisa May Alcott’s #LittleWomen edited by @sblackwood.bsky.social! Head to the link in our bio to get reacquainted with the March family & their lasting literary legacy!

Norton library edition of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. The purple book is against a white background with a white vase of dried lavender sprigs

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Verna Kale @vernakale.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

If you’re in the area tomorrow evening (Penn State main/Bellefonte), come talk with me and @hesterblum.bsky.social about my antiracist classroom @nortonlibrary.bsky.social edition of Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises.

Book cover is red yellow blue and very minimalist. Event is January 24 at 6:30 at the Print Factory in Bellefonte.

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Julia Conaway Bondanella @arethusa131.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I have revised the translations and worked with a new editor Fred Neuhouser—the 2nd Discourse is out in the Norton Library. They have the ms. for the Social Contract.

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The Norton Library @nortonlibrary.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Happy first day of #MLA2025! We are here with @modernlanguage.bsky.social in Booth 500A-502A and want to talk about books and podcasts with you! We are doing a Norton Library spotlight at 10AM and everyone is welcome at our cocktail hour this afternoon starting at 4:30PM!

W. W. Norton booth at MLA featuring Norton Critical Editions, Norton Library titles, Norton Anthologies, and more

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Norton Critical Editions @nortoncriticals.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

New year, new @modernlanguage.bsky.social conference incoming! We, along with the lovely @nortonlibrary.bsky.social team and the rest of Norton Literature, can't wait to see you all at Booths 500A & 502A at MLA in ONE week! If you'll be there, let us know! Swing by for our series spotlights & party!

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Norton Critical Editions @nortoncriticals.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

All I want for the holidays is to know who will come and see us at the @modernlanguage.bsky.social conference in New Orleans!

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CUNY English PhD Program @cunyenglish.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Prof. Stephanie Insley Hershinow @sinsleyh.bsky.social's edition of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility is out now with @nortonlibrary.bsky.social! Order your copy here: wwnorton.com/books/978039... @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

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Sense and Sensibility (The Norton Library)

Part of the Norton Library series, Sense and Sensibility (The Norton Library), Jane Austen, Stephanie Insley Hershinow, 9780393893878

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The Norton Library @nortonlibrary.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

For sale: The Sun Also Rises (The Norton Library edition), Never Read #TheSunAlsoRises by #ErnestHemingway joins the #NortonLibrary series with @vernakale.bsky.social’s incredibly accessible introduction! Find out more at the link in our bio! #NewBookTuesday

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Daniel Wright @dannybwright.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

My edition of Great Expectations for the Norton Library series now has a webpage, a delightfully purple cover, and a projected publication date of July 1, 2025. Think about it for your Fall 2025 syllabus needs. (Or just because it's a pretty colour!) wwnorton.com/books/978132...

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Great Expectations (The Norton Library)

Part of the Norton Library series, Great Expectations (The Norton Library), Charles Dickens, Daniel Wright, 9781324046721

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Verna Kale @vernakale.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Planning for Spring 2025? If you adopt my Norton Library edition Sun Also Rises (pub date Dec 15!) for your class or book club, I’ll be glad to drop in via Zoom for a Q&A. Contact me via my PSU email to make arrangements.

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