Highlights
More Complete Longer Works
The inclusion of 43 complete longer works, more than any other Western literature anthology, makes the Eighth Edition an unmatched value for students:
- Homer, The Odyssey
- Aeschylus, Agamemnon
- Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers (new selection)
- Aeschylus, The Eumenides
- Sophocles, Oedipus the King
- Sophocles, Antigone (new selection)
- Euripides, Medea
- Aristophanes, Lysistrata
- Plato, The Apology of Socrates
- Plautus, Pseudolus
- Beowulf
- Dante, The Inferno
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Everyman
- Shakespeare, Hamlet (new selection)
- Lope de Vega, Fuente Ovejuna
- Moliére, Tartuffe
- Mme. de la Fayette, The Princess of Cléves
- Racine, Phaedra
- Juana Inés de la Cruz, Reply to Sor Filotea de la Cruz
- Pope, The Rape of the Lock
- Voltaire, Candide, or Optimism
- Goethe, Faust, Part I
- Pushkin, The Queen of Spades
- Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
- Melville, Billy Budd, Sailor
- Flaubert, Madame Bovary
- Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
- Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich
- Ibsen, Hedda Gabler
- Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard
- Conrad, Heart of Darkness (new selection)
- Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author
- Mann, Death in Venice
- Joyce, The Dead
- Kafka, The Metamorphosis
- Eliot, The Waste Land
- Akhmatova, Requiem
- Brecht, The Good Mother of Setzuan
- Beckett, Endgame
- Solzhenitsyn, Matryona’s Home
- Achebe, Things Fall Apart
New Translations
For the Eighth Edition, the editors have carefully reconsidered all translations for clarity and accuracy, adding several improved versions of central texts. These sixteen new translations include sections of the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures, the Iliad and Odyssey, Metamorphoses, Beowulf, and Faust. See the contents page for a complete list of new translations and translators.
New Emphasis on History and Culture
The Eighth Edition features a significantly strengthened emphasis on historical and cultural context by offering three new (and much requested) features:
- Contextual "Clusters": Each major section of the anthology now includes one "cluster" of historically or culturally significant writings organized around a theme or topic that illuminates and expands on the literary selections (see the contents page).
- Color plates: 32 pages of beautiful color plates, featuring nearly 50 works of art, provide students with visual counterpoints to the literary works and further expand students’ appreciation of the cultural milieu surrounding the literature.
- Student Web site (Coming in October):
This extensive student resource provides bulleted summaries of all annotative introductions in the anthology; multiple-choice review quizzes on both the introductions and on some of the most widely taught anthology selections; and a rich selection of contextual and historical materials, including maps and illustrations. Students will also have access to a wealth of additional resources on Norton Literature Online
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