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Souls of Black Folk
Av W. E. B. Du Bois, Jesse McCarthy
Häftad, 2022
137 kr
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“William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, the author of this small, paradigm-shifting book, was a brilliant polymath, a pioneering historian and sociologist, a fierce advocate for racial justice, and a towering social philosopher, widely regarded as one of the greatest black geniuses of the modern era. In …
Sun Also Rises (The Norton Library)
Av Ernest Hemingway, Verna Kale
Häftad, 2024
137 kr
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The Norton Library edition of The Sun Also Rises features the complete text of the first edition, first printing (1926). Verna Kale’s artful introduction highlights how the novel is steeped in the recent history of World War I and explores how Hemingway uses the scandalous social lives of his …
Tale of Genji
Häftad, 2021
137 kr
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About Dennis Washburn’s translation“Washburn’s version of Murasaki Shikibu’s masterpiece is lucid and engaging, irresistibly drawing the reader further and further into the story and the exquisite world it creates for us of Japan’s Heian court. A fresh and invaluable Tale of Genji for those of us …
Jungle (The Norton Library)
Av Upton Sinclair, Kenneth W. Warren
Häftad, 2022
139 kr
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Part of the Norton Library seriesThe Norton Library edition of The Jungle features the complete text of the first (1906) edition. An introduction by Kenneth W. Warren discusses the novel’s biographical and historical contexts, its literary merits, and its successes (and shortcomings) in affecting …
Lysistrata
Av Aristophanes
Häftad, 2021
126 kr
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About Aaron Poochigian’s translation“Aristophanes was a funny, often obscene social commentator, and he was also a brilliantly fluent, wide-ranging poet, whose lyric rhythms were recited and sung to music, with dancing. It’s very rare for modern translators to convey his poetic virtuosity or make …
Notes from Underground
Häftad, 2021
137 kr
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About Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground“The novels of Dostoevsky are seething whirlpools, gyrating sandstorms, waterspouts that hiss and boil and suck us in. They are composed purely and wholly of the stuff of the soul. Against our wills we are drawn in, whirled round, blinded, suffocated, and at …
Decameron
Häftad, 2020
153 kr
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“The Decameron has had numerous English translations, most of them bowdlerized or reliant on corrupt texts. The challenge is to move gracefully between the widely varying idioms employed for different tales and Rebhorn is notably successful in handling this, avoiding both an excess of slack …
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (The Norton Library)
Av Robert Louis Stevenson, Caroline Levine
Häftad, 2022
126 kr
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Part of the Norton Library seriesThe Norton Library edition of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde features the text of the first (1886) British edition. A thorough introduction by Caroline Levine discusses the contexts and structure of Stevenson’s thrilling horror, highlighting the literary …
Odyssey
Av Homer
Häftad, 2020
145 kr
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The first great adventure story in the Western canon, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty and power; about marriage, family and identity; and about travellers, hospitality and the changing meanings of home in a strange world.This vivid new …
Iliad (The Norton Library)
Av Homer
Häftad, 2025
120 kr
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The Norton Library edition of The Iliad features the complete text of Emily Wilson’s renowned 2023 translation. An elucidating introduction explores the poem’s Bronze Age origins, its major themes, and its unsurpassed impact and influence. Also included in this edition are specially -drawn maps, a …
Moby-Dick (The Norton Library)
Av Herman Melville, Jeffrey Insko
Häftad, 2023
137 kr
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Part of the Norton Library seriesThe Norton Library edition of Moby-Dick features the text of the first U.S. edition. An introduction by Jeffrey Insko celebrates the novel as a love letter to language and explores the landscape of allegorical interpretations—from the impending doom of environmental …
Utilitarianism
Av John Stuart Mill, Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
109 kr
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Edited by Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer, “the acknowledged heirs of the founders of utilitarianism” (Jeff McMahan), the Norton Library edition of Utilitarianism features the complete text of the seventh (1879) edition, preceded by a thorough introduction to the work’s historical and …
Mahabharata
Häftad, 2020
145 kr
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?Carole Satyamurti's version of the Mahabharata moves swiftly and powerfully. She has found a voice that's capable of a wide variety of expression, and a line?basically classical English blank verse with a jazz-like freedom to swing?that propels the reader effortlessly onward through the cosmic, …
Canterbury Tales
Häftad, 2020
137 kr
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Preserving Chaucer’s rhyme and metre, Sheila Fisher’s vivid, lively and readable translation makes the poetic artistry of The Canterbury Tales accessible to a contemporary ear and invites readers, even those who have read the work before in Middle English, to a new appreciation of its delightful …
Bacchae
Av Euripides
Häftad, 2020
122 kr
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?Poochigian's translation is a triumph?a remarkably lucid and vibrant rendition . . . The script's language is precise yet sonorous, expertly constructed in iambic pentameter to both moving and chilling effect.? --Aram Kouyoumdjian, Asbarez ?By far the most theatrically assured rendition of the …
Selected Tales (The Norton Library)
Häftad, 2023
137 kr
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Part of the Norton Library series“As Kate Holland notes in her fine introduction to these new translations, Nikolai Gogol is a hybrid: Ukrainian-Russian, Romantic-Realist, equal parts nightmare and satire. Michael Katz hears this hybrid tension. We sense the terror and fantasy of Ukrainian folklore …
Metamorphoses
Av Ovid
Häftad, 2020
122 kr
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Winner of the 2004 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets, Charles Martin’s blank-verse translation of the Metamorphoses is a “smoothly readable, accurate, charming, subtle yet clear” (Richard Wilbur) version that “highlights [the poem’s] lightness and pervasive …
Crime and Punishment
Häftad, 2020
142 kr
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“Mesmerizingly good … the best, truest translation of Dostoevsky’s masterpiece into English. It’s a magnificent, almost terrifying achievement of translation, one that makes its predecessors, however worthy, seem safe and polite.”—STEVE DONAGHUE, Open Letters Monthly
Inferno
Häftad, 2020
137 kr
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Michael Palma’s translation of the Inferno reproduces in contemporary English Dante’s intricate triple-rhyming terza rima form, defying the conventional wisdom of literary commentators who long argued that it simply cannot be done. This spectacular feat of poetic artistry— “accurate … admirably …
Confessions
Av Augustine
Häftad, 2020
126 kr
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“There are times when Augustine seems all too self-consciously in control of his performance, but there are moments when the role of penitent sinner turned ecstatic worshipper ceases to be a role and becomes simply the naked truth of the man himself. The deep strength of Peter Constantine’s …
Golden Ass (The Norton Library)
Av Apuleius
Häftad, 2026
137 kr
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The Norton Library edition of The Golden Ass features a new, captivating translation by Ellen Finkelpearl. Finkelpearl provides an engaging introduction that historically contextualizes the translation and its author, as well as targeted notes that clarify ancient allusions for a new generation of …
Second Treatise of Government
Av John Locke, A. John Simmons
Häftad, 2021
118 kr
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Edited by A. John Simmons, “one of our most distinguished theorists of political obligation” (Jeremy Waldron), the Norton Library edition of Locke’s Second Treatise of Government features the complete text of the sixth (1764) edition, which incorporated all of Locke’s corrections to previous …
Daodejing (The Norton Library)
Av Laozi
Häftad, 2026
120 kr
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The Norton Library edition of the Daodejing features Brook Ziporyn’s acclaimed translation of the Taoist classic. Ziporyn’s thought-provoking introduction unpacks the historical impact of the Daodejing and provides a foundation for analyzing its meaning, while targeted endnotes contextualize the …
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
Av Jean Jacques Rousseau, Frederick Neuhouser
Häftad, 2021
109 kr
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The Norton Library edition of Rousseau’s Discourse features an inviting and readable translation by Julia Conaway Bondanella that makes the text accessible to the modern English reader while faithfully preserving the power and clarity of Rousseau’s voice and style of argumentation. A thorough …
Leviathan
Av Thomas Hobbes, David Johnston
Häftad, 2020
169 kr
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Carefully and faithfully edited by “one of our most astute commentators on Hobbes’s political theory” (Jeremy Waldron), the Norton Library edition of Leviathan features the complete text of the work, with spelling and punctuation thoughtfully modernised and archaic terms helpfully annotated …
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Häftad, 2020
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122 kr
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Simon Armitage’s “compulsively readable, energetic, free-flowing, high-spirited version” (Edward Hirsch, The New York Times) of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight offers “a brilliantly well-tuned modern score for one of the finest surviving examples of Middle English poetry” (Poetry Review) that …
The Great Gatsby (The Norton Library)
Av F. Scott Fitzgerald, Anne Margaret Daniel
Häftad, 2022
137 kr
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Part of the Norton Library seriesThe Norton Library edition of The Great Gatsby features the complete text of the first 1925 edition, along with a selection of earlier short stories by Fitzgerald: “Winter Dreams,” “Absolution,” and “The Sensible Thing.” An introduction by Anne Margaret Daniel sets …
Mrs. Dalloway
Häftad, 2021
137 kr
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“Mrs. Dalloway is a novel that thinks with extraordinary precision and virtuosity about what modern novelists mean when they talk about character: how characters are born; how they age and grow; . . . how they reach for one another in moments of terror and joy, and, finding nothing solid to hold …
Emma
Av Jane Austen, Stephanie Insley Hershinow
Häftad, 2022
137 kr
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Famously described by the author as “a heroine whom no one but myself will much like,” Emma Woodhouse is wealthy and charming, and she delights in interfering with the romantic relationships within her community—though she herself has no desire to marry. As her meddling begins to bear consequences, …
Frankenstein (The Norton Library)
Av Mary Shelley, Michael Bérubé
Häftad, 2021
132 kr
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The Norton Library edition of Frankenstein features the complete text of the first (1818) edition and Mary Shelley’s preface to the third (1831) edition. An introduction by Michael Bérubé situates the work in its historical and literary contexts, and, drawing on his pioneering work in disability …
