| The Norton Anthology of American Literature: Shorter Edition |  | Author: Nina Baym
Creator: David Minter
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc (Np)
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 5128055
Media: Paperback
Edition: 5th Packag
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.7
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 3.3
ISBN: 0393989305
Dewey Decimal Number: 810
EAN: 9780393989304
ASIN: 0393989305
Publication Date: January 1999
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Book Description
Now available in a portable multi-volume format, The Norton Anthology of American Literature is the classic survey of American literature from its sixteenth-century origins to its flourishing present. The Sixth Edition offers the work of 242 writers—30 newly included—representing the extraordinary wealth and diversity of American literature. Among the many major works included in their entirety are Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Thoreau's Walden, Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Clemens's Huckleberry Finn, Chopin's The Awakening, Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, Larsen's Quicksand, Ginsberg's "Howl," Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, and Parks's The America Play. Informative introductions, headnotes, footnotes, and bibliographies accompany the texts. Package 2, "1865 to the Present," contains three slipcased volumes: "1965-1914" (Volume C), "Between the Wars: 1914-1945" (Volume D), and "Literature Since 1945" (Volume E).
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 Good deal June 5, 2008
Textbook as described, good shape, no marks or highlights. Quick delivery and good price, thanks! Purchased for class, but really enjoy some of the readings, great collection of authors.
 IT WAS BRAND NEW February 17, 2007
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
I don't have any complaints. The book was brand new, so of course there were no problems with it. The book was delivered in a timely manner.
Norton Anthology of American Literature Volumes C, D, and E February 10, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I purchased these volumes of the anthology for school and, while I am not generally a fan of reading out of anthologies, this whole set has been very beneficial. I plan on keeping them after I finish the class in order to use them when I become an English teacher. The author introductions are helpful and insightful, providing sufficient background on the writer so that the reader may better understand each story by having a basic knowledge of what the author was experiencing in his or her life. The footnotes areexcellent, giving definitions of archaic words and phrases that might not otherwise be found without extensive search into the customs of the English language. Overall, this was a good purchase, and I will use it often in the future.
Fast Secure Shipping! January 29, 2007
2 out of 8 found this review helpful
The college bookstore was TOO busy this semester. I took a couple of minutes and LOTS OF FAITH in ordering the volumes on-line. This order was shipped and at my home before I could blink!
 Dinosaurs! February 15, 2006
13 out of 37 found this review helpful
Another too thick, too heavy, too expensive textbook anthology of American literature. There're FAR too many selections to cover in a university survey course (which is all these books are good for--no one would read them for pleasure!) and a lot of them are pretty mediocre. When will these dinosaurs collapse under their own weight and some enlightened editors come up with something truly useful, meaningful, and inspiring? No wonder the reading public is is shrinking--these obese anthologies destroy any desire to read and study literature.
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