Highlights
New Color Plates
Students using The Norton Anthology of World Literature now have access to contextual materials that enrich reading and inform interpretive work. Visit the eMedia & ancillaries page for more information about new color plates and online discovery modules.
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Forty-Three Complete Longer Works
Providing students with exceptional value and instructors with increased flexibility, The Norton Anthology of World Literature offers an unparalleled number and variety of complete works—forty-three in all.
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Ample Selection of Prose Fiction
The addition of thirteen short stories and other prose works to the Second Edition rounds out an impressive collection of over fifty pieces of prose fiction. New selections include Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekhov, The Dead by James Joyce, The Bear by William Faulkner, The Man Who Was Almost a Man by Richard Wright, Pedro P·ramo by Juan Rulfo, The Old Chief Mshlanga by Doris Lessing, Love in a Fallen City by Zhang Ailing, Ladies and Gentlemen, to the Gas Chamber by Tadeusz Borowski, The Daydreams of a Drunk Woman by Clarice Lispector, In Camera by Nawal El Saadawi, Walker Brothers Cowboy by Alice Munro, and The Rooftop Dwellers by Anita Desai.
Expanded Selection of Women’s Writing
The Second Edition expands on its representation of women’s writing with the inclusion of eleven new women authors. The edition also features expanded and revised selections by women authors who have been included in previous editions. New and expanded selections include:
- Selections from Lais by Marie de France
- A Hymn to St. Maximinus by Hildegard of Bingen
- A Lover’s Prize by Beatrice, countess of Dia
- Alone in Martyrdom by Christine de Pizan
- Selections from The Heptameron by Marguerite de Navarre
- Selections from The Grasmere Journals by Dorothy Wordsworth
- Poems by Anna Petrovna Bunina
- Poems by Rosali· de Castro
- Selections from A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
- Poems by Joyce Mansour
- Poems by Alfonsina Storni
- The Old Chief Mshlanga by Doris Lessing
- Love in a Fallen City by Zhang Ailing
- The Daydreams of a Drunk Woman by Clarice Lispector
- In Camera by Nawal El Saadawi
- Walker Brothers Cowboy by Alice Munro
- The Rooftop Dwellers by Anita Desai
Strengthened Representation of Lyric Poetry
Over one hundred lyric poems have been added to the Second Edition, more than doubling the representation of this important literary form. Newly included are three sections devoted to lyric poetry—"Medieval Lyrics," "Continental Romantic Lyrics," and "Dada-Surrealist Poetry"—and many individual additions throughout the anthology, including new poems from China, India, the Caribbean, and Latin America.
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