Norton Criticals

[Anonymous No.6684190]

ITT: Norton Editions

H8 R8 Appreci8, whatever you want to do.

Let's see 'em. Whose got the best selection?

[Anonymous No.6684193]

I have some of the older ones with the ugly spines (not my picture)

[Anonymous No.6684344]

They're probably the best editions because of all the supplementary materials in the back. I think I only have Frankenstein and Walden in Norton at the moment because I donated all of my other ones.

[Anonymous No.6684381]

>>6684344
Half the modern criticism they include is garbage thoguh

[Anonymous No.6684401]

>>6684381
Not necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes when I needed to pad out an essay I'd cite poor criticism and explain why it's wrong or missing the point. For example, Jean-Paul Sartre's essay on Sound and the Fury. I can't remember it right now but I recall setting his analysis against my own reading of Faulkner as well as other criticism.

[Anonymous No.6684594]

>>6684190
All my Nortons are at my student house but:

As I Lay Dying
Bleak House
Macbeth
Hamlet
Jane Eyre
Pride and Prejudice
Doctor Faustus

[Anonymous No.6685693]

>>6684190
I have a bunch, but don't feel like hunting and photographing right now. They're very handy.

[Anonymous No.6685699]

>>6684190
I have that same Jane Eyre, as well as Dead Souls.

I love Norton. It's supplements are fantastic. I mean, the criticism is hit-or-miss, but all the historical stuff is great.

[Anonymous No.6685972]

norton is garbage. shit translations and worthless supplementary crap. pleb bait for retards on /lit/

[Anonymous No.6687158]

>>6685972
Go away, troll-boy: adults are conversing.
My Nortons.

[Anonymous No.6687165]

>>6685693
that is a beautiful assortment, Anon. Do you study that academically or just on your own?

[Anonymous No.6687178]

>>6687165
Well, both, but I'm an adjunct prof at two universities, so I end up teaching a very random range of courses. My library is rather wild. Half the books in that photo (and all these Nortons) were given to me free by the publishers: it's one of the great perks.

[Anonymous No.6687191]

>>6684190
To piggyback on this thread, I still haven't read Moby Dick and was planning on picking up the Norton second edition. Is this a good idea? Anyone know of better editions out there?

[Anonymous No.6687489]

>>6687158
>adult
>materialist 12-year old collector
lel

[Anonymous No.6687593]

>>6687489
I use those editions to teach undergrad courses, kid. I don't collect them for fun.

[Anonymous No.6687687]

>>6687191
It's an excellent edition, if a bit light on the footnotes. There's some handy supplementary material--letters and other work by Melville, a nautical glossary, some new critical work, etc. The Northwestern-Newberry is fine, but it uses the same text and is a bit older, and the Longman is good. If you want more copious foot/endnotes, track down the old Penguin with Harold Beaver's editorial work (1972 I think), but be warned: his explanatory notes are erudite, but often his own theories more than agreed-upon information.

[Anonymous No.6687692]

>>6687178
>haven't read a single one
no wonder you're an adjunct

[Anonymous No.6687696]

>>6687687
>If you want more copious foot/endnotes, track down the old Penguin with Harold Beaver's editorial work

That's the one I have. The notes are half the length of the book itself! I haven't read it along with the commentary yet, but I will next time.

[Anonymous No.6687700]

>>6687692
I've read all of them (aside from two I didn't end up using). Where did I say I hadn't read them?

[Anonymous No.6687715]

I would like to get the Norton Critical Edition of the Bible (two volumes for the Old/New Testaments). It's good, right?

[Anonymous No.6687728]

I only have this one, which I picked up for free off a Brooklyn sidewalk.

[Anonymous No.6687730]

i prefer hardcover editions. judge me

[Anonymous No.6687742]

>>6687728
"Brooklyn sidewalk" lol

[Anonymous No.6687768]

>>6687742
Not him, but once when I was living in Manhattan I found a copy of The Stranger, a Doris Lessing Book, D.H. Lawrence's The Rainbow, and a couple of other books sitting in a empty wine bottle box. People leave all kinds of cool shit on the side of the road in NYC. That's how I got my current desk and one of my bookshelves.

[Anonymous No.6687823]

>>6684190
Left to right, top row first:

Good stuff, alright-pretty solid, alright-good stuff, not a fan
What are doing, eh-decent but not great, great

[Anonymous No.6687825]

>>6687158
This guy is based

(except for Twain's Yankee and Achebe, the fuck are you doing? Also Hawthorn can't stand with the rest)

[Anonymous No.6687830]

>>6685693
I'm not even going to critique this one, this guy knows what he's doing.

[Anonymous No.6687890]

>>6687825
I took over another instructor's course halfway through the year (she just stopped showing up and then got another job), and Achebe was already on the list. It was strange teaching a bunch of books I hadn't selected, though I did draw the line at Twilight. She'd had some terrible idea about doing Dracula first term (which they had) and Twilight second term. I encouraged the students to complain to the department if they didn't like it, and they did, so I was allowed to replace it with a decent book (In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje). The Twain was sent to me by Norton when they heard I was teaching an Arthurian lit class, but I didn't end up using it. The Hawthorne was for an American Lit class--not my one of my usual fields, but it was useful reading.

[Anonymous No.6688175]

>>6687728
>>6687768
i got this mobb deep single from a sidewalk in harlem

[Anonymous No.6688483]

>>6687687
Great, thanks for the help!