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W. W. Norton & Company : College Books

The Praise of Folly and Other Writings

Meet the Editor

Robert M. Adams was Professor of English Emeritus, University of California at Los Angeles. He was the author of many books, including Ikon: John Milton and the Modern Critics, Strains of Discord, Surface and Symbol, The Land and Literature of England, and Shakespeare—The Four Romances. He edited six other Norton Critical Editions, including The Prince by Machiavelli, Utopia by Sir Thomas More, Candide by Voltaire, and Red and Black by Stendhal, which he also translated. He was also a contributing editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature.