- Seven different tale types: "Little Red Riding Hood," "Beauty and the Beast," "Snow White," "Sleeping Beauty," "Cinderella, "Bluebeard," and "Tricksters." These groupings include multicultural versions, literary rescriptings, and introductions an annotations by Maria Tatar - Tales by Hans Christian Andersen and Oscar Wilde - More than fifteen critical essays exploring the various aspects of fairy tales. New to the Second Edition are interpretations by Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, Max Luthi, Lewis Hyde, Jessica Tiffin, and Hans-Jorg Uther - A revised and updated Selected Bibliography.

- A newly edited text based on the first English book edition (1902), the last version to which Conrad is known to have actively contributed. "Textual History and Editing Principles" provides an overview of the textual controversies and ambiguities perpetually surroundingHeart of Darkness. - Background and source materials on colonialism and the Congo, nineteenth-century attitudes toward race, Conrad in the Congo, and Conrad on art and literature - Fifteen illustrations - Seven contemporary responses to the novella along with eighteen essays in criticism--ten of them new to the Fifth...

- Sylvere Monod's superbly edited text, based on the 1854 edition and accompanied by Fred Kaplan's expanded annotations - Fourteen illustrations from 1854 to circa 1890 - Contextual pieces by social critics and theorists of Dickens' time that give readers outstanding examples of views on industrialism, education, and utilitarianism in the nineteenth century - Eight new critical essays by Paulette Kidder, David M. Levy, Christopher Barnes, Theodore Dalrymple, Christina Lupton, Efraim Sicher, Nils Clausson, and Kent Greenfield and John E. Nilsson - A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography.

- Thirty of Maupassant's best short stories centering on war, the supernatural, and French life, translated by Sandra Smith - An introduction and explanatory footnotes by Robert Lethbridge - Essays, letters, and newspaper articles on the subjects that influenced Maupassant's writing, including politics, war, love despair, and the supernatural - Sixteen critical assessments from Maupassant's time to our own, including those by Joseph Conrad, David Coward, Mar Donaldson-Evans, Rachel Killick, Roger L. Williams, Ruth A. Hottell, and Katherine C. Kurk - A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography.

- The first English book edition of the novel (1907), accompanied by explanatory footnotes - Four illustrations - Contemporary sources that informed Conrad's writing of the novel, including newspaper accounts of the "Greenwich Bomb Outrage," articles from the anarchist press, earlier fictional treatments of the Martial Bourdin case (the inspiration fo Adolph Verloc), and important texts related to anarchism and fin-de-siecle culture - Seven wide-ranging critical essays by Ian Watt, Terry Eagleton, Martin Ray, Hugh Epstein, Gail Fincham, Peter Lancelot Mallios, and Michael Newton - A...

- Frederick Douglass's 1845Narrative, the most influential autobiography of its kind. - A preface and explanatory footnotes by William L. Andrews and William S. McFeely - Contemporary perspectives by Douglass, Margaret Fuller, James Monroe Gregory, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Essays by William L. Andrews, William S. McFeely, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Deborah E. McDowell, Houston A. Baker, Jr., Jeannine Marie DeLombard, and Robert D. Richardson, Jr - A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography.

"A terrific new translation--Murnaghan's Medea is both terrifying and sympathetic, an emotionally complex portrayal that leaves the reader no simple answers." --Kirk Ormand, Oberlin College "This NCE will appeal to a wide range of teachers who are in search of an authoritative text of a play that is both highly provocative and in need of interpretive support." --Michelle Zerba, Louisiana State University

"An exciting new edition of a Twain text that raises important questions about modernity, technology, and progress. I especially welcome the inclusion of all of Dan Beard's original illustrations." --BEVERLY LYON CLARK, Wheaton College

"Artfully designed to make Mark Twain's 'most conceptually ambitious and most wildly problematic novel' accessible to today's reader. --THOMAS COOLEY, The Ohio State University

"The comedia was the vibrant center of Spain's Golden Age and this skillfully curated collection provides the reader with a superior introduction to its range and complexity. Gregary Racz's delightful translations are complemented by Barbara Fuchs' deep knowledge of the period to produce an essential primer for all students of early modern theater." --ANNA MORE, University of Brasilia

"Elizabeth Ammons has produced a first-rate Norton Critical Edition with Uncle Tom's Cabin." --Mason I. Lowance, Jr., University of Massachusetts Amherst

"I will definitely use this edition again. The critical materials at the end of the book helped my students to have informed, productive class discussions." --Heidi Oberholtzer Lee, University of Notre Dame