A Norton critical edition

A guide to reading and understand Edith Wharton's "The Age of Innocence" that includes an annotated edition of the novel, plus critical essays examining the novel's themes, structure, literary significance, and characters.

In nineteenth-century Russia, the wife of an important government official loses her family and social status when she chooses the love of Count Vronsky over a passionless marriage.

Presents the 1726 text of Swift's satire in which a shipwrecked Englishman encounters bizarre populations in unheard-of lands, including an enlightened race of horses that makes him see his fellow humans as vile creatures; and includes notes and fourteen works of criticism.

Presents a reprint of the text of first American edition of Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court", wherein a nineteenth-century mechanic suffers a blow to the head and wakes up in King Arthur's Britain. Includes original illustrations by Daniel Beard and contains critical reviews and essays.

As a young ship's officer in the British Mercantile Marine, Jim is branded a coward when he deserts a passenger-crowded ship he believes is sinking. Trying to atone for his cowardice, he prowls the unmapped jungles of the Far East in search of the feudal warlord who is terrorizing the peace-loving natives. He helps the enslaved natives, is raped by a tribal chief, and finally sacrifices his life for them. A tale of both cowardice and redemption. Includes critical reviews and interpretations.

First published in 1929, Faulkner created his "heart's darling," the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers?the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin and the monstrous Jason.

Contains fourteen essays on the novel, a chronology, an updated bibliography, unpublished manuscript passages, and discarded chapter XII.

Short selection from the Canterbury Tales--a group of stories told by pilgrims on their way to Canterbury Catherdral--in the original Middle English with definitions, followed by essays on the background of each story, plus criticisms of the texts.

Almost all of Blake's published writings are here, as well as most of his shorter poems that remained in manuscript at his death. Contemporary and recent criticism is included.