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.
This Norton Critical Edition is the only one-volume edition that presents the full range of Swift's writing, including not only the major literary prose works
Elizabeth Gaskell, one of the nineteenth century’s most significant novelists, was widely held to be the social conscience of Great Britain during the Industrial Revolution. This Norton Critical Edition of Gaskell’s first novel is based on the 1854 Fifth Edition, the last edition corrected by the author.
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.