I am ✨over the moon✨that both @laurakalas.bsky.social & I have critical extracts from our Margery Kempe essays in the new edn of Lynn Staley’s Norton Critical Edn of Margery’s Book! 🤩 I bought the first edn as an MA student and still use it to this day, so it’s a HUGE honour to be in the new one! 🙏🏻

Join the editors of our Jane Austen Norton Critical Editions tomorrow at 1 PM ET for a very exciting roundtable discussion on Jane Austen's legacy! Audience members are encouraged to ask questions in an open Q&A with our editors. Bring your most pressing questions and register here: bit.ly/48W7nkI

Do you have students interested in #publishing? Have them apply to our Spring 2026 Hybrid Internship! Our interns are paid, they get hands on experience, can participate in education sessions, & they can meet the anthropomorphic seagull behind this account! Apply here: wwnorton.com/careers/nort...

It's been an epic week: lectures/seminars on 'The Faerie Queene', Book 2 and 'Paradise Lost', Books 1 and 2 👑😈

Reading some of the changes between the 1818 and 1831 versions side by side on the same pages instead of separate books helped me see and understand the differences so much better. I love the penguin classics of the 1818 text but I think this one is my fav edition now!

Time for a re-read

Finished reading this on the train ride home and definitely teared up at the end. I don't have anything to say about it that hasn't already been said a million times by people much smarter than me, but what a marvelous and endlessly entertaining work of fiction!

Apropos of nothing, let me celebrate Anna More's fantastic Norton Critical Edition of Sor Juana's Selected Works. Terrific edition and a great selection of the recent scholarship on a complex figure. wwnorton.com/books/978039...

My thanks to @nortoncriticals.bsky.social for this beautiful copy of Wuthering Heights. Looking forward to previewing this for next semester.

Just completed THE SUFFERINGS OF YOUNG WERTHER by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated from the German by Stanley Corngold. This is the Norton Critical Edition.

Are you looking to create a literature course without using machine-learning applications? Read on to learn how Richard Haslam uses Norton Critical Editions and their contextual materials to support this goal and improve students' critical thinking skills: seagull.wwnorton.com/Haslam_Digit...

Let thine attention not stray—we have a brand-new Second Norton Critical Edition of The Book of Margery Kempe! Lynn Staley (Colgate University) new edition has everything a reader needs to study Margery Kempe’s genre-defining work between these two covers: wwnorton.com/books/978132...

Join us today at 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 AM PT for a very special NCE Speakers Series Event on Mariano Azuela's novel of the Mexican Revolution, The Underdogs! Editor Ilan Stavans will talk about the novels enduring legacy and will do a Q&A! Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Return to Cane, Jean Toomer’s classic genre-bending modernist masterpiece, with the brand-new Third Norton Critical Edition! Revised by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. & Jesse McCarthy, this edition features everything students need for in-depth study: wwnorton.com/books/978132...

If your summer Friday is in need of some serious excitement, join the Hemingway Society for a morning webinar on #AFarewelltoArms! Their panel includes our Norton Critical Editions editor Marc K. Dudley and our @nortonlibrary.bsky.social editor Mark Cirino! www.hemingwaysociety.org/hemingway-so...

Norton Critical Edition of Mansfield Park: 320 pages of novel. Nearly 200 pages of DVD extras. Impressive

Oh, how I love a dog-eared Norton Critical edition. #books #writers

It arrived!

Sudden, powerful rush of nostalgia for Norton Critical Editions.

Think I might have discovered the best cover for a Norton Critical Edition of all time? Truly outstanding.

“You have multiple copies of Wuthering Heights” okay, yes, fair, I do collect those, but also the Norton Critical Edition is a distinct book!!

“I’d like to say WELCOME! Welcome to Illyria!” Join Viola and Sebastian as you’ve never seen them before in our First #NortonCriticalEdition of William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night! This edition has been expertly edited by Natasha Korda (Wesleyan Uni.)! Available now: wwnorton.com/books/978039...

Join Norton Critical Edition editors Robert S. Miola and @profshakespeare.bsky.social on William Shakespeare's birthday to discuss his impact on English Literature throughout the centuries and new ways to engage students in the classroom! REGISTER HERE: bit.ly/3EGNYZH

Dr. Pamela J. Franics outlines how the Norton Critical Edition of Wide Sargasso Sea brings a deeper analysis to #highschool #literature, including teaching the importance of critical literary lenses, context, and backstory when analyzing text. #LitRules seagull.wwnorton.com/WideSargasso...

Turn on, tune in, drop by the Norton website for your own copy of The Steppenwolf: A Norton Critical Edition, translated by Kurt Beals from Hermann Hesse’s mind-bending original German novel: wwnorton.com/books/978039...!

For the 100th anniversary of #TheGreatGatsby, take a look at Gatsby in the classroom with our wonderful Norton Critical Edition contributor Andrew Newman! www.publicbooks.org/gatsby-100-a...

April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. —T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”

Are you a student or recent grad interested in #publishing? Do you want to learn how the industry works across all departments in a publishing house? If so, take a look at our new Summer 2025 Internships! We offer in-person and remote options! Apply here: wwnorton.com/careers/nort...

Join translator & editor Kurt Beals TOMORROW for a discussion of why these famous German novels have endured as often taught & read works in classrooms around the world! There will be a Q&A with Kurt Beals in the second half of the event, so bring your best questions! REGISTER HERE: bit.ly/4bqsXyk

Is this a brand-new #nortoncriticaledition which I see before me, the cover toward my hand? Delve into a brand-new third edition of the Scottish play we love to quote, #WilliamShakespeare’s Macbeth, edited once again by Robert S. Miola: wwnorton.com/books/978132...

I just finished this, and it was a thought-provoking and informative read in several different ways. I'll pass over most of that here, and look at Tolkien's relationship with the poem, which I think is deeper than is commonly realized. 🧵

Dante's Inferno. I'm collecting these Norton Critical Editions like Beanie Babies. #booksky

To put it in a nutshell, we are afflicted with a love of our brand-new #NortonCriticalEdition of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando! Carefully edited by Madelyn Detloff (Miami University), this volume has everything you need to study Orlando between its covers: wwnorton.com/books/978132...

#LiteraryValentine fans, we love you against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be! We hope that you’ve enjoyed this year’s crop of #ncevalentines & that you don’t haunt the halls in a wedding dress for the next 365 days 💕

If you thought we’d let #ValentinesDay pass without a William Shakespeare #literaryvalentine, you might as well be shipwrecked on the coast of Illyria! Send this #ncevalentine to the Twelfth Night fan in your life who loves She’s the Man, a flair for the dramatic, and happy endings!

Nothing says #HappyValentinesDay like Ernest Hemingway! Send this #ncevalentine to your #literaryvalentine down in the trenches of life with you who loves non-fiction books about WWI, who makes parodies of Baby Shoes, and not-so-secretly wants a six-toed cat!

If our #nortoncriticaledition team loved composition less, we might be able to talk about it more beyond our #ncevalentines. I declare after all there is no enjoyment like a Jane Austen Valentine 💕

Our love of #ncevalentines was stronger by far than the love of those #valentines who are less literary than we! Send our tortured poet #literaryvalentine to your corvid friends, your Edgar Allan Poe super fans, and the readers in your life who keep a loving countdown to Halloween 🐦‍⬛

Don’t let anyone tell you that existentialist German Literature in translation can’t make a romantic #literaryvalentine! Send this to the reader in your life who loves existential crises, autofiction, & brilliant contemporary translations (or those who love #ncevalentines of #TheSteppenwolf) 🐺

We Macbeg your forgiveness valentines for waiting so long for this year’s batch of #NCEValentines! Tune in each day this week for new #literaryvalentines to send to your favorite #englishmajor! This Scottish valentine can’t be said in a theater, so you could say it’s a forbidden love…

happy now, @wanlittlehusk.bsky.social? (I am)

When Team NCE gets matching tattoos of this Mr. Darcy marginalia doodle THEN WHAT???

Set sail with #JaneAusten’s most famous second chance romance—Persuasion! The all-new 3rd #nortoncriticaledition edited by Rae Greiner has engaging updates on naval imperialism, colonialism, the proliferation of the slave trade, & more! Read along here: wwnorton.com/books/978132...

Today I’m looking for clues in my @nortoncriticals.bsky.social edition of #JaneAusten’s #Emma for my Wolves Lit Fest talk on Jane Austen and detective fiction. I also get to use my lovely new Emma bookmark! #JaneAusten250

Today’s the day! We are here at @modernlanguage.bsky.social in booth 500A-502A and we want to talk books with you! We’ll be doing a Norton Critical Edition spotlight at 2PM and everyone is welcome at our 4:30PM cocktail hour this afternoon!

🏝️If your New Year's resolution included an island vacation, check that off with our Norton Critical Edition of H. G. Wells's The Island of Doctor Moreau! This new edition features important selections on race, empire, science, & more! Get your copy here: wwnorton.com/books/978039... #NewBookTuesday

7 January 1792: #OTD Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women was published. This text was hugely influential and is regarded as one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy.

ME, SOBBING: Please, Emily, you can't give all your 100 characters the same 4 names EMILY BRONTE: *points* That's Earnshaw Linton. *points* That's Cathy Heathcliff. *points* Heathcliff Linton. *points* Cathy Cathy. *points* Earnshaw Cathy Jr. *pause* And they're all GHOSTS.

The Norton Critical Edition of Moby Dick comes with an incredible amount of supplemental material including a lot of contemporary reviews and what’s most interesting is how many of the mixed to negative notices outright call it/him genius and then proceed to criticize it for *being* genius.