Main

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time. Edited and with Notes by Peter Lancelot Mallios. Introduction by Robert D. Kaplan.

“Backgrounds and Sources“ presents a rich selection of Forster's previously unpublished journals and letters and his working notes, which bring readers into the long and painstaking creative process that culminated in Howards End.

This Norton Critical Edition is based on Hans Gabler’s acclaimed text and is accompanied by his introduction and textual notes. John Paul Riquelme provides detailed explanatory annotations.

In her most exuberant, most fanciful novel, Woolf has created a character liberated from the restraints of time and sex. Born in the Elizabethan Age to wealth and position, Orlando is a young nobleman at the beginning of the story—and a modern woman three centuries later.

This is the Hercule Poirot novel that startled fans, polarized critics, shocked the Detection Club (of which Christie was a member), and solidified her reputation as the queen of crime.

Now more than ever, Aldous Huxley’s enduring masterwork must be read and understood by anyone concerned with preserving the human spirit.

Textual notes illuminate the novel’s historical background, regional references, and the non-translated Creole and French phrases necessary to fully understand this powerful story. Backgrounds include a wealth of material on the novel’s long evolution, its connections to Jane Eyre, and Rhys’s biographical impressions of growing up in Dominica.