Clifton Fadiman, John S. Major, Katharine Washburn
The one necessary book of poetry for every home and library.More
Robert D. Fulk, John C. Pope
Third Edition
A meticulous updating of the highly respected Norton college paperback
Seven Old English Poems, this Third Edition, retitled Eight Old English
Poems meets the needs of both graduate and undergraduate students of
Old English.More
Jules Chametzky, John Felstiner, Hilene Flanzbaum, Et Al.
The Most Comprehensive Anthology of Jewish American Literature Ever
Published: With the work of 145 writers, from 1645 to the present, writing in all
genres—fiction, poetry, drama, essays, letters, editorials, journals,
autobiography, cartoons, song lyrics, and jokes.More
Favorite Poem Project (U. S.), Maggie Dietz, Robert Pinsky
This anthology embodies Robert Pinsky's commitment to discover America's beloved poems, his special undertaking as Poet Laureate of the United States.More
Jerome Beaty
Third Edition
The fifteen works collected in The Norton Introduction to the Short
Novel, Third Edition, represent a wide range of periods and
international voices.More
Daryl Cumber Dance, Nikki Giovanni
The vibrant humor of African American women is celebrated in this bold and unique collection that the Miami Herald describes as "breathtakingly broad and deep."More
Jan Harold Brunvand
Fourth Edition
The definitive introduction to American folklore.More
Brian Attebery, Ursula K. Le Guin
In the tradition of other groundbreaking Norton Collections, Ursula K. Le Guin and Brian Attebery's Norton Book of Science Fiction provides the first truly comprehensive and coherent look at the best of contemporary science fiction.More
Joyce Carol Oates
Drawing on syllabi for Joyce Carol Oates’s own writing seminar at Princeton University, Telling Stories gathers over one hundred works of narrative art—"miniature" narratives, dramatic monologues, early stories by well-known writers, prose pieces inspired by myth, legend, and folktale, poems that tell stories, memoir and diary excerpts, two examples of genre fiction, and a generous sampling of classic and contemporary short stories—selected to stimulate and inspire beginning writers as they practice and perfect their craft.More
R. V. Cassill, Joyce Carol Oates
Second Edition
In this Second Edition of The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction,
master teachers and writers R.V. Cassill and Joyce Carol Oates have
refreshed and updated the acclaimed original volume, celebrating not
only the enduring literary genre but also that genre's continuing
energy and success.More
William L. Andrews, Minrose C. Gwin, Trudier Harris, Et Al.
For nearly four centuries, the American South has been home to a vital
literary tradition.More
Paula Geyh, Fred G. Leebron, Andrew Levy
From William S. Burroughs to David Foster Wallace, Postmodern American
Fiction offers up witty, risky, exhilarating, groundbreaking fiction
from five decades of postwar American life.More
Joseph Epstein
Some fifty of the finest personal essays selected by the man often hailed as the "premier essayist of our time."More
Wayne Franklin
American Voices, American Lives is a fresh, illuminating core reader for introductory courses in American studies and an exciting companion volume for surveys in American history and American literature that offers extraordinary documents, many never before accessible to students.More
Stephen Owen
Hailed as a groundbreaking text in Chinese Studies, An Anthology of Chinese Literature brings together representative works from the first millenium B.C. to the end of the imperial system in 1911.More