In his award-winning translation, Charles Martin combines fidelity to Ovid’s text with verse that catches the speed and liveliness of the original. Ovid’s epic poem—whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages—is one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante’s time to the present, when writers such as Salman Rushdie and Italo Calvino have found a living source in Ovid’s work.
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
Byron's Poetry and Prose presents an extensive selection of Byron's poetry, letters, and journal entries in chronological clusters, allowing readers to see the changes that took place in his writing in the context of the places he lived and his fame, exile, and travels.
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.
Modern and Contemporary Irish Drama is the ideal focal point for the study of Irish literature and culture and, because of its many great twentieth-century works, for the study of drama more generally.