"Backgrounds and Contexts" brings together relevant correspondence and contemporary reviews from both British and American sources. Also included are documents related to Conrad's sources for the stories, among them Charles Arthur Sankey's "Ordeal of theCutty Sark: A True Story of Mutiny, Murder on the High Seas." To help readers navigate, the editor includes a glossary of nautical terms as well as diagrams of the kinds of ships that appear in the stories. "Criticism" includes fifteen essays representing both new and established voices. The essays are arranged by story, with the...

This Norton Critical Edition includes - Fifty-five judiciously chosen stories from Wayne A. Rebhorn's translation ofThe Decameron. - Introductory materials and explanatory footnotes by Wayne A. Rebhorn, along with three maps - Biographical works by Filippo Villani and Ludovico Dolce along with literary studies by Francesco Petrarca, Andreas Capellanus, and Boccaccio - Eleven critical essays, including those by Giuseppe Mazzotta, Millicent Marcus, Teodolinda Barolini, Susanne L. Wofford, Luciano Rossi, and Richard Kuhns - A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography.

- 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 adaptation12...

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...

- Revised and expanded explanatory footnotes, a new preface, and a note on the text by Leland S. Person - Key passages from Hawthorne's notebooks and letters that suggest the close relationship between his private and public writing - Seven new critical essays by Brook Thomas, Michael Ryan, Thomas R. Mitchell, Jay Grossman, Jamie Barlowe, John Ronan, and John F. Birk - A Chronology and revised and expanded Selected Bibliography.

The Norton Critical Edition includes - Introductory materials and explanatory annotations by Gordon McMullan as well as numerous images - Sources and early rewritings by Luigi Da Porto, Matteo Bandello, Pierre Boaistuau, Kareen Seidler, and Thomas Otway, among others - Critical readings and later rewritings spanning four centuries and including those by Stanley Wells, Wendy Wall, Dympna C. Callaghan, Jill L. Levenson, Nia?h Cusack, David Tennant, and Courtney Lehmann - A Selected Bibliography.

The Norton Critical Edition also includes - A full introduction by Nicholas Cronk - Six background studies of Enlightenment ideas and themes (by Richard Holmes, Adam Gopnik, W. H. Barber, Dennis Fletcher, Haydn Mason, and Nicholas Cronk), five of these new to the Third Edition - Seven critical essays--five of them new to this edition--representing a wide range of approaches toCandide. Contributors include J. G. Weightman, Robin Howells, James J. Lynch, Philip Stewart, Erich Auerbach, and Jean Starobinski. - A revised and expanded Selected Bibliography.

- The Harper & Brothers 1852 first edition of the novel, accompanied by Robert S. Levine and Cindy Weinstein's editorial matter - Six illustrations - Contextual and source materials, including letters, responses toPierre by Melville's contemporaries, and works by Daniel Webster, Thomas Cole, James Fenimore Cooper, Lydia Maria Child, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, among others, that give readers a sense of Pierre's time and place. - Seven critical essays on Pierre's major themes by Sacvan Bercovitch, James Creech, Samuel Otter, Wyn Kelley, Cindy Weinstein, Jeffory A. Clymer, and Dominic...

-The First Folio text (1623) - An introduction, explanatory footnotes, note on the text, and textual notes by Edward Pechter - Fifteen illustrations - Giraldi Cinthio's sixteenth-century story in its entirety, which Shakespeare used for both the plot and many details of Othello - A generous selection of interpretive responses toOthello from its origins to the present day, including--new to the Second Edition--those by Stanley Cavell and Lois Potter. Edward Pechter's popular theatrical and critical overview of Othello has been significantly expanded - An updated Selected...