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[burning-pining-perishing]

“No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and how dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.”

~ Bram Stoker, Dracula

[dontstandmedown]

It is so hard loving Mansfield Park because every day i see the worst misinterpretations of it and every day i have to prevent myself from writing impromptu essays telling people why they’re wrong

[youvebeenlivingfictional]

Mr. Darcy: I admire a woman that loves reading

Elizabeth:

[benvoolioo]

oh, so murdering my husband on his return from troy after he sacrificed our daughter to Artemis makes me the bad guy??? god forbid women do anything  🙄

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e paradise with you by my side!

#HappyValentinesDay to all of our #classicliterature lovers and #nortoncriticaledition readers! You are our forever valentines!

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I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun, my valentine! What is #ValentinesDay without a #JaneAusten card for your crush and their 10,000 pounds a year?? Check in later today for our final #literaryvalentines this season!

[kaiserin-erzsebet]

Jonathan swore when he was escaping the castle that he would rather die a man than become undead.

But when it is Mina's soul on the line, he would rather give up his soul than force her to be alone.

If that isn't romance, I don't know what is.

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Who knew that #Dracula could say something that could be portrayed as romantic?

For #valentinesday2023 send this Norton Critical Edition #literaryvalentine to someone who is always welcome in your home—be it humble or a mouldering castle!

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Does anyone recognize this Classic #TheOdyssey inspired #literaryvalentine? Let our love story be an epic odyssey... but perhaps one with less mythical obstacles for #ValentinesDay203!

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If you #SorJuana be my valentine, I will write you ballads, sonnets, redondillas, and décimas for all of our days togethers!

Enjoy this second new Norton Critical Edition inspired #literaryvalentine for #valentinesday2023!

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🚨 Calling all #modernism fans! 🚨

Join us Friday, February 17th at 5PM EST to hear esteemed scholar & editor Marc K. Dudley speak on the legacy of Sherwood Anderson's #WinesburgOhio in the classroom & beyond!

Sign up here to attend or get the recording: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/1916742504508/WN_qxILLgTbR9uYgbLfpS-89g

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It isn't the Valentine's Day season if the Norton Critical Editions aren't doing #LiteraryValentines!

Come back every day through Valentine's Day for literary valentines new and old! Can you guess today's novel inspiration without checking the tags?

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Join us Thursday, February 16th, at 4PM EST to hear acclaimed scholars Jared Gardner & Jeremy Dauber talk about #WillEisner, his legacy in graphic novels & Jewish literature, and why we teach graphic novels! Sign up at the link above!

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For the first time ever as Norton Critical Editions we have William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and Mary Shelley’s The Last Man!

If you’ve been bingeing Succession or The Last of Us and are looking for a novel to fill the time between episodes and seasons, with these titles you can dive completely into a Southern tale about the rise and fall of a cruel patriarch or an extremely prescient dystopian plague story about the collapse of society in the twenty-first century. You can find these (and more!) at wwnorton.com/nortoncriticals!

[rationalseries]

Are you…

Half agony

Half hope

Voting ended onFeb 3, 2023

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Throughout #BlackHistoryMonth we will be highlighting #NortonCriticalEditions of works by some of America’s most influential Black writers.

Whether these titles are brand-new to you or well-worn, there is much to glean from each of these authors and their stories!

[wedarkacademia]

“Life is given to me only once, and never will be again—I don't want to sit waiting for universal happiness. I want to live myself; otherwise it's better not to live at all.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, “Crime and Punishment”, originally published c. 1866.