The Norton Anthology of World Literature, Volume A, Beginning to A.D. 100

The Norton Anthology of World Literature: 100 to 1500 (The Norton Anthology of World Literature, #B)

Leading the field once again, Norton is proud to publish the anthology for the new century, The Norton Anthology of World Literature, Second Edition. Now published in six paperback volumes (packaged in two attractive slipcases), the new anthology boasts s

The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces

These texts have been selected and prepared by expert scholars and translators who are also committed undergraduate teachers. Like all Norton Anthologies, the Expanded Edition in One Volume of The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces is foremost a teach

The Norton Anthology of Western Literature, Volume 1

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

Theory of Literature

A classic of criticism that examines the nature, function, form, and contents of literature. "The most ordered, ranging and purposeful attempt...toward keeping the study of literature at once intelligent and liberal" (New York Times). Index.

In The Shade Of Spring Leaves: The Life Of Higuchi Ichiyo, With Nine Of Her Best Stories

Higuchi Ichiyo, Japan's first woman writer of stature in modern times, was born in 1872 and died at the age of twenty-four. In her brief life she wrote poems, essays, short stories and a great, multivolume diary. This book is made up of a critical biograp

The Book of Songs: The Ancient Chinese Classic of Poetry

First published in 1937. The Book of Songs is a collection of ancient Chinese songs, dating from 800 to 600 B.C. Until this was published in 1937 it had not been translated into English since the middle of nineteenth century, when sinology was still in it

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The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces: Volume 1

The Norton Book of Classical Literature

Preface IntroductionGreeceHomerHesiod The archaic lyric & iambusArchilochus (7th century B.C.)Tyrtaeus (7th century B.C.)Alcman (late 7th century B.C.)Hipponax (middle 6th century B.C.)Alcaeus (late 7th century-middle 6th century B.C.) Sappho (a conte