The Norton Literature Library

The Norton Literature Library is a curated digital collection of Norton's best-selling literature titles. The unique collection boasting over 100 titles, combines Norton Critical Editions and robust teaching and learning tools into one unparalleled resource. It is designed to offer instructors a wide range of choices for their reading lists and to provide students with easy access to Norton’s high-quality texts and resources.

WHAT'S INCLUDED ● FEATURES AND BENEFITS

What's Included in the Norton Literature Library?

The Norton Literature Library is made up of over 100 titles authored by leading scholars with high-quality pedagogical support, context and critical materials. It is a multidisciplinary collection of titles in literature, philosophy, history and ideas.

NORTON CRITICAL EDITIONS

No series offers more pedagogical value than the Norton Critical Editions. Each volume combines everything students require for in-depth study and sets the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers.

ARISTOTLE, Poetics
AUSTEN, Pride and Prejudice
THE BHAGAVAD GITA
BOCCACCIO, The Decameron
BRONTE, Jane Eyre
BRONTE, Wuthering Heights
CARROLL, Alice in Wonderland

STOKER, Dracula
CATHER, My Antonia
CHAUCER, The Canterbury Tales: Seventeen Tales and the General Prologue
CHOPIN, The Awakening
THE CLASSIC FAIRY TALES
CONFUCIUS, The Analects
CONRAD, Heart of Darkness
CONRAD, The Secret Agent
DICKENS, Hard Times
DOSTOEVSKY, Crime and Punishment
DOUGLASS, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
THE ENGLISH BIBLE, King James Version, Volume 1: The Old Testament
THE ENGLISH BIBLE, King James Version, Volume 2: The New Testament
FITZGERALD, The Great Gatsby
HARDY, Jude the Obscure
HAWTHORNE, The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings
HEANEY Beowulf: A Verse Translation
HOMER The Odyssey
JAMES, The Turn of the Screw
JOHNSON, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
KAFKA, The Metamorphosis
KYD, The Spanish Tragedy

LAZARILLO DE TORMES MALTHUS, An Essay on the Principle of Population

STAVANS, Lazarillo de Tormes

SOPHOCLES, Antigone

MARIE DE FRANCE, Poetry
MAUPASSANT, Selected Works
MELVILLE, Moby-Dick

MELVILLE, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities
MILTON, Paradise Lost
NORTHUP, Twelve Years a Slave
PROUST, Swann’s Way
THE QUR’AN
SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth
SHAKESPEARE, A Midsummer Night's Dream

JOYCE, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
SHAKESPEARE, Othello
SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet
SHAKESPEARE, The Tempest
SHELLEY, Frankenstein
SMOLLETT, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
SOR JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ, Selected Works
STEVENSON, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
STOWE, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
TWAIN, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
VOLTAIRE, Candide
WEBSTER, The Duchess of Malfi
WILDE, The Importance of Being Earnest

WILDE, The Picture of Dorian Gray
WOOLF, Mrs. Dalloway

WOOLF, To the Lighthouse
WORDSWORTH, Wordsworth’s Poetry and Prose

THE NORTON LIBRARY

Edited and produced with the same care that Norton has devoted to its literary anthologies and other highly regarded texts, Norton Library titles include enticing introductions and helpful but unobtrusive annotations by leading writers.

ALCOTT, Little Women
ARISTOPHANES, Lysistrata
AUGUSTINE, Confessions
AUSTEN, Pride and Prejudice
AUSTEN, Emma
BOCCACCIO, The Decameron
BRONTE, Jane Eyre
BRONTE, Wuthering Heights
CHAUCER, The Canterbury Tales
CHESTNUTT, The Marrow of Tradition
CHOPIN, The Awakening
CONRAD, Heart of Darkness
DANTE, Inferno
DOSTOEVSKY, Crime and Punishment
DOSTOEVSKY, Notes from Underground
DOUGLASS, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
DU BOIS, The Souls of Black Folk
EURIPIDES, Medea
EURIPIDES, Bacchae
FITZGERALD, The Great Gatsby
HAWTHORNE, The Scarlet Letter
HOMER, The Odyssey

GOGOL, Selected Tales

JOYCE, Dubliners
HOBBES, Leviathan
LOCKE, Second Treatise of Governments
MAHABARATA
MELVILLE, Moby-Dick or The Whale
MILL, Utilitarianism
MILTON, Paradise Lost
MURASAKI, The Tale of Genji
OVID, Metamorphoses
SHELLEY, Frankenstein
SINCLAIR, The Jungle
SOPHOCLES, Oedipus Tyrannos
STEVENSON, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
STOKER, Dracula
STOWE, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
SWIFT, Gulliver’s Travels
THOREAU, Walden and Other Writings
WHARTON, The Age of Innocence
WOOLF, Mrs Dalloway

ROUSSEAU, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

WILDE, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Key Benefits

Give your students more value for their money

With students already paying substantial tuition fees, there is an increasing expectation that the materials they need for their courses will be provided. Save them money on long reading lists.

All students using the same quality editions

All your students can be on the same page, enhancing collaborative learning. Stops students using online versions of texts that provide no critical apparatus or framework for analysis.

Encourages students to read across genres and periods

From timeless classics to contemporary masterpieces, the collection spans American Literature, World Literature, Religion, Politics, Mythology, British Literature, and more.

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