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The Norton Introduction to Literature offers the trusted writing and reading guidance students need, along with an exciting mix of the stories, poems, and plays instructors want. The Shorter Fourteenth Edition is the most inclusive ever, with more contemporary and timely works... Read Full Overview

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The Norton Introduction to Literature helps all students become close readers and confident writers because it offers trusted writing and reading guidance they need, along with the exciting mix of stories, poems, and plays instructors want. Newly added works by today's most vibrant... Read Full Overview

The Norton Introduction to Literature offers the trusted writing and reading guidance students need, along with an exciting mix of the stories, poems, and plays instructors want. The Portable Fourteenth Edition is the most inclusive ever, with more contemporary, timely works... Read Full Overview

The Norton Introduction to Literature, Portable Edition, offers an affordable and diverse selection of classic and contemporary literature, the most carefully edited apparatus for analyzing texts and writing thoughtfully, and a wider, more accessible array of student and... Read Full Overview

This unparalleled collection offers the trusted writing guidance students need, along with the exciting mix of the stories, poems, and plays instructors want. The Thirteenth High School Edition adds more contemporary and diverse works to engage today's students, and new pedagogical... Read Full Overview

The Fourteenth High School Edition of The Norton Introduction to Literature offers an exciting mix of contemporary and classic stories, poems, and plays that instructors love to teach. Organized by genre and theme, the book provides a flexible approach as well as tools that... Read Full Overview

The Norton Introduction to Literature presents an engaging, balanced selection of literature to suit any course. Offering a thorough treatment of historical and critical context, the most comprehensive media package available, and a rich suite of tools to encourage close reading... Read Full Overview

The Norton Introduction to Literature, Tenth Edition, includes a diverse selection of literature that fits any course, balancing exciting contemporary pieces with perennially popular classics. The Tenth Edition is more flexible, helpful, and innovative than ever, with new albums... Read Full Overview

The Norton Introduction to Literature offers teachers the finest, most diverse selections and the most carefully edited apparatus for analyzing texts and writing thoughtfully.

The Norton Introduction to Literature , Shorter Eleventh Edition, is a diverse, flexible, and balanced text that offers the most carefully edited apparatus and the most interesting and useful treatment of the contexts of literature. A best seller since its first edition, The... Read Full Overview

The Norton Introduction to Literature , Eleventh Edition, is a diverse, flexible, and balanced text that offers the most carefully edited apparatus and the most interesting and useful treatment of the contexts of literature. A best seller since its first edition, The Norton Introduction... Read Full Overview

In the Media Version, the contextual approach to literature is enhanced by ten illustrated slideshows, 50 literary workshops, color-coded MLA citation guidelines, citation practice drills, a brief guide to writing research papers, and an interactive tutorial on avoiding plagiarism... Read Full Overview

The Norton Introduction to Literature , Shorter Tenth Edition, includes a diverse selection of literature that fits any course, balancing exciting contemporary pieces with perennially popular classics. The Shorter Tenth Edition is more flexible, helpful, and innovative than ever,... Read Full Overview

The Norton Introduction to Literature , Portable Tenth Edition, includes a diverse selection of literature that fits any course, balancing exciting contemporary pieces with perennially popular classics. The Portable Tenth Edition is more flexible, helpful, and innovative than... Read Full Overview

The Norton Introduction to Literature presents an engaging, balanced selection of literature to suit any course. Offering a thorough treatment of historical and critical context, the most comprehensive media package available, and a rich suite of tools to encourage close reading... Read Full Overview

Help all students become close readers and confident writers.

Building on the foundation established over the last 30 years, this edition provides a broad selection of texts, including 11 new stories and poems, informative but not generally interpretive editorial work, and attention to contexts and the craft of criticism. General topics... Read Full Overview

Now offering two new contextual chapters, a completely rewritten section on writing about literature, refreshed pedagogy throughout the book, many new student-writing samples, and 60 new literary selections, the Ninth Edition of The Norton Introduction to Literature is more flexible... Read Full Overview