The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 1

By M.H. Abrams

Book Overview

This seventh edition's thoroughly revised text incorporates recent scholarly developments while retaining the elements that have made the anthology useful in the past. New features includes a broader representation of women writers of all historical periods such as Marie de France, Frances Burney, Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, Elizabeth Gaskell and Eavan Boland; a richer treatment of post-Colinial writers such as Jean Rhys, Chinua Achebe, V.S. Naipaul, Anita Desai, Les Murray, Salman Rushdie, J.M. Coetzee and Paul Mundoon; and a new set of cultural and thematic Issues such as The Literature of the Sacred, The Science of Self and World, Slavery and Freedom, Revolution, Rights and Liberation and The Rise and Fall of Empire. The period introductions, author headnotes, annotations and bibliographies have been revised and many have been rewritten for this edition. The highlight of this edition is a new verse translation of Beowulf by Seamus Heaney.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393974871
• ISBN13: 9780393974874
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 2974 Pages
• Weight: 4.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 2.3" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Norton Anthology is an excellent starting place, an excellent finishing place.

Coming from near zero and having read the basic literature without the aid of a trained eye, to tell you what you are missing. I am having hours of great fun just reading from front to back. It is like getting many free books (annotations, introductions, and explanations) all wrapped up in one. Not only do you learn more about the literature, but you can retain more when the story has meaning and is in a context. I do have to confess that there is some literature that I have never heard about. So, in the process of reading this, I am also expanding my repertoire.

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