The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, Volume 2 (Literature of Western Culture Since the Renaissance) (Fourth Edition)

by Maynard Mack (Editor)

Paperback, 1979

Status

Available

Call number

FIC B

Publication

W. W. Norton & Company (4th Edition)

Pages

1881

Description

This groundbreaking Norton Anthology offers the best of the literatures of India, China, Japan, the Middle East, Africa, and native America alongside the masterpieces of the Western tradition.

Description

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 teaching anthology, edited to meet the needs of today s students discovering a range of literary traditions for the first time.
Authors represented:
Masterpieces of neoclassicism. Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Molière ; Jean Racine ; François, duc de la Rochefoucauld ; Jean de la Fontaine ; Alexander Pope ; Jonathan Swift ; François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire --
Masterpieces of romanticism. Jean-Jacques Rousseau ; Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ; William Blake ; William Wordsworth ; Samuel Taylor Coleridge ; George Gordon, Lord Byron ; Percy Bysshe Shelley ; John Keats ; François, René de Chateaubriand ; Alfred, Lord Tennyson ; Robert Browning ; Walt Whitman ; Emily Dickinson ; Herman Melville --
Masterpieces of nineteenth-century realism and naturalism. Gustave Flaubert ; Fyodor Dostoevsky ; Leo Tolstoy ; Henrik Ibsen ; Anton Chekhov --
Masterpieces of the modern world. William Butler Yeats ; Luigi Pirandello ; André Gide ; Marcel Proust ; Thomas Mann ; Wallace Stevens ; James Joyce ; Virginia Woolf ; Franz Kafka ; D.H. Lawrence ; T.S. Eliot ; Anna Akhmatova ; Katherine Anne Porter ; William Faulkner ; Bertolt Brecht ; Jorge Luis Borges; Vladimir Nabokov ; Jean-Paul Sartre ; Richard Wright ; Albert Camus.

Collection

Barcode

2355

Language

Original language

English

Physical description

1881 p.; 8.3 inches

ISBN

0393950506 / 9780393950502

User reviews

LibraryThing member justagirlwithabook
When I was studying English for undergrad, I had to purchase an excessive number of copies of literature textbooks and anthologies. This was one of them, which will most likely never be used again, but considering it cost me as much as it did, it'll stick around for a bit longer.

Rating

½ (26 ratings; 4)

Call number

FIC B
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