A leading scholar draws on fifty years of reading and studying J.R.R. Tolkien to explain how he created an entire world

This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1925 first American edition text, introduced and annotated by Anne Fernald. A map of Mrs. Dalloway’s London.

An unusually rich selection of contextual materials, including diary entries and letters related to the composition of the novel, essays, short stories and biographical excerpts, and the only introduction that Virginia Woolf wrote to any of her novels. The voices of other writers are also included, allowing readers to consider the literary p...

An insightful and provocative exploration of the relationship between motherhood and art through the lives of women artists and writers