Highlights
A Commitment to Balance and Depth
The Seventh Edition continues to represent in depth the enduring writers and works of English literature. Among the major works newly included are the complete texts of Milton’s Paradise Lost and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; Shakespeare’s comedy Twelfth Night; Beckett’s tragicomic masterpiece, Endgame; and Achebe’s Things Fall Apart.
Seamus Heaney’s New Verse Translation of Beowulf
A modern poetic translation that is faithful to the language, versification, and spirit of Beowulf.
"Heaney has made a masterpiece out of a masterpiece."
—The Financial Times
Expanded Selection of Women Writers
The Seventh Edition features works by 60 women writers, 21 writers new to the Norton Anthology, 20 represented with additional selections or reselected works.
New and Expanded Cultural Clusters
Fourteen new and expanded thematic clusters gather short texts that illuminate cultural, historical, and literary concerns within each period.
Twentieth-Century Literature in English
The Seventh Edition reflects the global reach of literature in English with ten new authors—Jean Rhys, Chinua Achebe, Alice Munro, V. S. Naipaul, Anita Desai, Les Murray, Salman Rushdie, J. M. Coetzee, Eavan Boland, and Paul Muldoon.
"The Persistence of English"
A new essay by Geoffrey Nunberg, Stanford University and Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, provides a lively exploration of the English language—its emergence and spread, and its apparent "triumph" as a world language.
Visual Narratives
Visual materials from several periods—Hogarth’s satiric Marriage A-la-Mode, engravings by Blake, and illustrations by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Thoroughly Revised Apparatus; New Design
Period introductions, author headnotes, annotations, and bibliographies have been thoroughly revised, many completely rewritten, for the Seventh Edition. New pedagogical features include timelines for each period and revised endpaper maps. The Seventh Edition offers a new page design and bolder typeface for easier reading.
3 Flexible Formats
The Seventh Edition is available in three formats: clothbound and paperbound in two volumes, or paperbound in six volumes.
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