Sarah N. Lawall Knihy

Offering a library of Western literature in a portable format, The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, Seventh Edition, includes 41 complete longer works, over 230 lyric poems, and 32 short prose works in accurate, authoritative, and readable translations. Maps, timelines, and pronouncing glossaries, all new to the Seventh Edition, help students read works with confidence and in context. With the Seventh Edition, the anthology continues to evolve--responding to the changing needs of instructors and students by adding new texts and new apparatus--while maintaining Norton's standards of reliability an excellence.

Firmly grounded by the hallmark strengths of all Norton anthologies thorough and helpful introductory matter, judicious annotation, complete texts wherever possible the Eighth Edition features a significantly expanded selection of literature (37 new authors and over 150 new pieces) as well as three new pedagogical features designed to enrich students understanding of the historical and cultural context of the literary works.

Read by millions of students over seven editions, The Norton Anthology of Western Literature remains the most trusted undergraduate survey of Western literature available and one of the most successful college texts ever published. Firmly grounded by the hallmark strengths of all Norton anthologies—thorough and helpful introductory matter, judicious annotation, complete texts wherever possible—the Eighth Edition features a significantly expanded selection of literature (37 new authors and over 150 new pieces) as well as three new pedagogical features designed to enrich students' understanding of the historical and cultural context of the literary works.