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.

    

    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.