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• Paperback: 832 pages
• Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.; Shorter Twelfth Edition edition (January 17, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0393931730
• ISBN-13: 978-0393931730

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Read by millions of students since it was first published in 1965, The Norton Reader is the bestselling collection of its kind. With readings in a wide variety of genres, subjects, and styles, it offers the largest and most thoughtfully chosen collection of essays for composition students today. The Twelfth Edition has been carefully revised, with 25 percent of its readings new and an extensive new introduction to reading and writing with guidelines to all the elements cited in the WPA Outcomes Statement. Available in two editions: a full edition, with 206 readings; and a shorter edition, with 123.

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• Paperback: 1440 pages
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin’s; 2nd edition (October 9, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312461860
• ISBN-13: 978-0312461867

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• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.; 1st ed edition (November 4, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0393972771
• ISBN-13: 978-0393972771

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The cultural resilience of fairy tales is incontestable. Surviving over the centuries and thriving in a variety of media, fairy tales continue to enrich our imaginations and shape our lives. This Norton Critical Edition of The Classic Fairy Tales examines the genre, its cultural implications–and its critical history. The editor has gathered fairy tales from around the world to reveal the range and play of these stories over time. The Classic Fairy Tales focuses on six different tale types: “Little Red Riding Hood,’ “Beauty and the Beast,” “Snow White,” “Cinderella,” “Bluebeard,” and “Hansel and Gretel.” It includes multicultural variants of these tales, along with sophisticated literary rescriptings. Each tale type is preceded by an introduction, and annotations are provided throughout. Also included in this collection of over forty stories are tales by Hans Christian Andersen and Oscar Wilde. “Criticism” collects twelve essays that interrogate different aspects of fairy tales by exploring their social origins, historical evolution, psychological dynamics, and engagement with issues of gender and national identity. Bruno Bettelheim, Robert Darnton, Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, Karen E. Rowe, Marina Warner, Zohar Shavit, Jack Zipes, Donald Haase, Maria Tatar, Antti Aarne, and Vladimir Propp provide critical overviews. A Selected Bibliography is included.

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• Paperback: 138 pages
• Publisher: CreateSpace (May 12, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1438257244
• ISBN-13: 978-1438257242

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When words of love do not come to you on their own, then read these letters. Complete, actual love letters of great men like Lord Byron, John Keats and Voltaire. Leaders like Henry VIII, George Washington, and Napoléon, who wrote to his beloved Joséphine, ‘I awake consumed with thoughts of you…’ Artists like van Gogh, Mozart, and Beethoven, who famously penned, ‘Though still in bed, my thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved…’ Dozens of intimate letters, coupled with over a score of period illustrations. Plus fascinating biographies, and insights into the couples’ relationships-how they got there, the obstacles they faced, and what happened next. Poet warriors, from the first through the twentieth century, including: Ovid, Sir Walter Raleigh, Goethe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Leo Tolstoy, Victor Hugo, Shelley, Robert Browning, Edgar Allen Poe, Mark Twain, Lewis Carroll, Pierre Curie, George Bernard Shaw, Jack London, Admiral Peary, Woodrow Wilson, and many more.

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• Hardcover: 2368 pages
• Publisher: Pearson Longman; 10 edition (November 9, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321428498
• ISBN-13: 978-0321428493

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The most popular introductory anthology of its kind, Kennedy/Gioia’s Literature continues to inspire students with engaging insights on reading and writing about stories, poems, and plays.  Poets in their own right, editors X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia bring personal warmth and a human perspective to this comprehensive anthology.  Organized into three genres—Literature, Tenth Edition, presents readable discussions of the literary devices, illustrated by apt works, supported by useful writing tips, and followed by (now) seven full chapters devoted to writing.  A broad scope of traditional and contemporary works is provided, most headed by author images and richly detailed biographical notes and some followed by author commentary.  While maintaining the characteristics of its previous editions–accessible apparatus, expansive author representation–this tenth edition of Literature has been re-imagined to include new casebooks, a lively new design, and more writing coverage than ever before.  New students of literature.

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• Paperback: 2624 pages
• Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.; Eighth Edition edition (June 17, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0393926168
• ISBN-13: 978-0393926163

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A library of Western literature in two volumes, this new edition offers more than 40 works in their entirety—from Homer’s Odyssey to Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart—as well as dozens of excerpted works and over 200 lyric poems.

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• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (July 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0140275010
• ISBN-13: 978-0140275018

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• Paperback: 1856 pages
• Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.; Shorter Ninth Edition edition (November 7, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 039392615X
• ISBN-13: 978-0393926156

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The Norton Introduction to Literature is an unparalleled collection of the very best classic and contemporary stories, poems, and plays, in a flexible and inviting format that accommodates many different teaching styles, reading tastes, and pedagogical needs. Now offering two new contextual chapters, a completely rewritten section on writing about literature, refreshed pedagogy throughout the book, many new student-writing samples, and 60 new literary selections, the Ninth Edition of The Norton Introduction to Literature is more flexible and attractive than ever before.

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• Paperback: 3088 pages
• Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.; Expanded Edition edition (January 17, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0393971430
• ISBN-13: 978-0393971439

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This groundbreaking Norton Anthology offers the best of the literatures of India, China, Japan, the Middle East, Africa, and native America alongside the masterpieces of the Western tradition. These texts have been selected and prepared by expert scholars and translators who are also committed undergraduate teachers. Like all Norton Anthologies, the Expanded Edition in One Volume of The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces is foremost a teaching anthology, edited to meet the needs of today’s students discovering a range of literary traditions for the first time. .

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• Paperback: 3956 pages
• Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.; Eighth Edition edition (December 14, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0393928330
• ISBN-13: 978-0393928334

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Read by millions of students over seven editions, The Norton Anthology of English Literature remains the most trusted undergraduate survey of English literature available and one of the most successful college texts ever published. Firmly grounded by the hallmark strengths of all Norton Anthologies—thorough and helpful introductory matter, judicious annotation, complete texts wherever possible—The Norton Anthology of English Literature has been revitalized in this Eighth Edition through the collaboration between six new editors and six seasoned ones. Under the direction of Stephen Greenblatt, General Editor, the editors have reconsidered all aspects of the anthology to make it an even better teaching tool.

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• Hardcover: 384 pages
• Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company (June 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0802863825
• ISBN-13: 978-0802863829

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• Paperback: 1264 pages
• Publisher: W W Norton & Company; 2nd Expanded edition (July 16, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 039392453X
• ISBN-13: 978-0393924534

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Seven years ago, W. W. Norton changed the way world literature is taught by introducing The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, Expanded Edition. Leading the field once again, Norton is proud to publish the anthology for the new century, The Norton Anthology of World Literature, Second Edition. Now published in six paperback volumes (packaged in two attractive slipcases), the new anthology boasts slimmer volumes, thicker paper, a bolder typeface, and dozens of newly included or newly translated works from around the world. The Norton Anthology of World Literature represents continuity as well as change. Like its predecessor, the anthology is a compact library of world literature, offering an astounding forty-three complete longer works, more than fifty prose works, over one hundred lyric poems, and twenty-three plays. More portable, more suitable for period courses, more pleasant to read, and more attuned to current teaching and research trends, The Norton Anthology of World Literature remains the most authoritative, comprehensive, and teachable anthology for the world literature survey.

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• Paperback: 800 pages
• Publisher: Dover Publications (May 7, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0486297489
• ISBN-13: 978-0486297484

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Three of the author’s most popular works—widely admired for their satiric wit, subtlety and perfection of style—brilliantly recreate the provincial world of the early 19th-century English countryside, focusing, respectively, on husband-hunting mothers and daughters, the humbling of proud lovers, and the return of a once-rejected lover.

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• Hardcover: 2256 pages
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin’s; 8th edition (April 30, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312452829
• ISBN-13: 978-0312452827

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The Bedford Introduction to Literature responds to the teaching and learning needs of all kinds of literature classrooms — and composition courses where literature is a focus. Author Michael Meyer understands that a particular challenge for instructors is that students do not necessarily see literature as relevant to their lives. They may be new to the study of literature, may have difficulty reading it, and may lack confidence in their critical abilities and writing skills. With these factors in mind, Meyer has put together a lively collection of stories, poems, and plays from many periods, cultures, and themes, with voices ranging from the traditional to the latest and hottest contemporary authors. As an experienced anthologist and instructor of literature, Meyer has a knack for choosing enticing selections — including humorous works and readings from popular culture — that students both enjoy and respond to. Complementing this unparalleled collection are proven editorial features that offer students real help with reading, appreciating, and writing about literature. The Bedford Introduction to Literature is a book designed to bring literature to life — and to make students life-long readers.

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• Paperback: 528 pages
• Publisher: Da Capo Press (November 5, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0306816083
• ISBN-13: 978-0306816086

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