One of the most important activist texts in American Literature is now available in a thoroughly updated and revised Norton Critical Edition. In the nineteenth century, Uncle Tom’s Cabin sold more copies than any book in the world except the Bible.
How the Other Half Lives occupies a premier place on a small list of American books that changed public opinion, influenced public policy, and left an indelible mark on history.
This revised and expanded Norton Critical Edition reprints the texts of Walden, Civil Disobedience, Slavery in Massachusetts, Walking, and Wild Apples.
Willa Cather's masterful 1913 novel marks her return to the Nebraska of her youth, and to the stories of the immigrant settlers she had known during her childhood and teenage years in Red Cloud.
The Norton Critical Edition presents Tocqueville's classic text in the Henry Reeve translation. It is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations and an introduction addressing Democracy in America's canonic and iconic place in American life.