Highlights
A Global Collection
The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, Expanded Edition in One Volume, introduces students to the rich variety of the world’s greatest literary traditions. Included complete or in generous excerpts are such works as Gilgamesh, The Ramayana, The Tale of Genji, and Things Fall Apart—and authors such as Chuang Chou, Abolqasem Ferdowsi, Rabindranath Tagore, and Jorge Luis Borges. The best literatures of Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and the Americas are gathered to form a truly global anthology.
World Literature In Depth
The Expanded Edition in One Volume presents works in their entirety or in substantial teachable excerpts. Instructors reluctant to teach snippets and concerned with the cost of individual works will find a singularly plentiful offering of complete works:
- Five complete short novels
- Thirteen complete plays
- Four complete long poems
- Eight short stories
This guarantees that all traditions are represented in sufficient depth to be taught coherently and well.
Superb Translations
Translators themselves, the editors of The Expanded Edition in One Volume have chosen the most exciting and readable translations available. Robert Fitzgerald’s masterful rendering of The Odyssey, Barbara Stoller Miller’s accessible version of The Bhagavad-Gita, and Husain Haddawy’s distinguished translation of The Thousand and One Nights, among other translations, mark the editors’ dedication to providing foreign language texts that convey in contemporary English the essential character of the original.
Helpful apparatus / Readable format
Like other Norton Anthologies, The Expanded Edition in One Volume provides headnotes and introductions that are concise yet thorough, and annotations that are explanatory, not interpretive. For this anthology, all apparatus has been revised to provide more historical and cultural information and to allow for cross-cultural comparisons. New appartus—timelines, maps, pronouncing glossaries, and an expanded Note on Translation—provide a rich context for understanding and appreciating world literature. As always, too, the Norton offers an attractive page, with a line length designed for maximum ease of reading.
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