Highlights
Great Value
The Norton Introduction to the Short Novel treats students to a library of fifteen novellas in a single, compact volume—for about a third of the price of individual paperbacks.
Helpful Apparatus
Throughout the anthology, Professor Beaty's expert but unobtrusive guidance helps students get the most out of their reading. He opens the text with a general introduction that discusses the short novel as a genre and as a reading experience. Each novel is accompanied by
- Evocative quotations and a brief headnote
- Annotations that are thorough but not excessive, helpful but not interpretive
- An afterword that prompts interpretation and discussion
Exciting Contemporary Pieces
In addition to newly added works by Kate Chopin, Jean Toomer, James Joyce, and Doris Lessing, the Third Edition features two exciting contemporary pieces:
- Don DeLillo’s Pafko at the Wall, first published in Harper’s Magazine, later incorporated into DeLillo’s monumental 1997 masterwork, Underworld.
- Alice Munro’s The Love of a Good Woman, taken from her 1998 collection of the same name, described by fellow Canadianóand Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist—Carol Shields as "a triumph. Certain to seal her reputation as our contemporary Chekov."
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