Thomas Cooley – författare

This Norton Critical Edition includes:The American first edition text, plus the reinstated “raft passage” from Life on the Mississippi (1883), complete with all original illustrations by Edward Windsor Kemble and, for the raft passage, John Harley.Editorial matter by Thomas Cooley.A rich selection of contextual and source documents centred on the novel’s historical background, language, composition and reception, four of them new to the Fourth Edition.Seventeen carefully chosen critical assessments of Mark Twain’s greatest work, ten of them new to the Fourth Edition.A chronology and a selected bibliography.About the SeriesRead by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format—annotated text, contexts and criticism—helps students to better understand, analyse and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.

An engaging collection of 70 short essays organized by the rhetorical modes all writers use: narration, description, comparison, and more. Readings on diverse experiences and perspectives make The Norton Sampler a book students enjoy reading, and brief, practical writing advice helps them learn. One-third of the readings are new—including two new thematic clusters on technology and censorship—and the Eleventh Edition includes a new chapter on “Analysis.” Now available in a more interactive, assignable ebook that takes student reading to the next level with Check Your Understanding questions to encourage comprehension as they read.