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.

    Most major works, from Homer's Odyssey to Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, are offered complete or in substantial, readable excerpts. New authors and works abound, including pieces by Plautus, Lucian, Ariosto, de Vega, Shakespeare, Joyce, O'Connor, Munro, and Silko, and new sections of Medieval lyrics and tales, Romantic poetry in translation, and Dada-Surrealist poetry. Informative period introductions and author headnotes guide readers through the cultural and historical contexts surrounding the literature.

    With its breadth of material, notes on sources, extended introduction and indexes, it is indispensable both as a choral collection and as a standard reference book.

    Lao and Other Improbable Stories): Ray Bradbury• The Circus of Dr. Lao: Charles G. Finney• The Pond: Nigel Kneale• The Hour of Letdown: E. B. White• The Wish: Roald Dahl• The Summer People: Shirley Jackson• Earth's Holocaust: Nathaniel Hawthorne• Busby's Petrified Woman: Loren Eiseley• The Resting Place: Oliver La Farge• Threshold: Henry Kuttner• Greenface: James H. Schmitz• The Limits of Walter Horton: John S. Sharnik• The Man Who Vanished: Robert M. CoatesCover Illustration: D. Schwartz

    This work is designed to provide representative readings and an adequate critical apparatus for the student undertaking his first long excursion in the literature of the English Romantic movement.

    

    Contains five hundred poems selected for what they have to say.

    Henry, Daphne du Maurier, Alexander Dumas, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Washington Irving, Edgar Allen Poe & others.