The forty stories in this volume include works from the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, from America, England, the Continent, Africa, and South America. The selections are arranged to enable the student and teacher to read with increasing understanding - first of subject and theme, then of form, kinds, and technique, and finally of historical and biographical considerations. Contains an instructive preface to the reading of the genre, and also a series of concluding essays on important topics.

Fiction

Literature & Fiction

Beaty, Jerome

History & Criticism

W. W. Norton & Co Inc

From the back cover: "This edition of 'The Norton Introduction to Fiction' continues its role as both anthology and textbook - a "teaching anthology" - for the indispensable course in which college student and college teacher begin to read fiction seriously together. "

The Norton introduction to fiction

Reference

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Norton

A balanced selection of classic and contemporary works by prominent and less-well-known writers. From Joyce, Hemingway, O'Connor, Auden, Stevens, Dickinson, Faulkner, Hawthorne, and Whitman, to Sharon Olds, Nicholson Baker, Carolyn Forché, Paul Ruffin, Salman Rushdie, Agha Shahid Ali, Eamon Grennan, Linda Pastan, Li-Young Lee, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Simon Ortiz, Seamus Heaney, Karen Volkman, and David Ives. "Exploring Contexts" chapters provide a window into the broader literary world by placing the stories, poems, and plays in contextual groups, literary, authorial, cultural, historical, and social, illuminating connections among texts and the influences that shape them. "Critical Context" Casebooks, a new feature, serve as capstone chapters for each genre. Each includes one primary literary work followed by several professional critical responses, allowing students to explore one work in depth and to develop and expand their reading and analytical skills as they prepare to write about what they've read. Two student papers, one, a personal response essay, and the other, a research paper, round out the fiction casebook. Reading, Responding, Writing chapters introduce students to a genre and ways of exploring and writing about it. Understanding the Text chapters within each genre cover the elements of literature, providing students with the tools they need to consider various works. Evaluating chapters strengthen students' critical skills by guiding them in the difficult task of evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of literary works. A Reading More section offers an album of pieces for further reading. New Fiction Chapter: "Cultural and Historical Context" This new chapter focuses on F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Babylon Revisited" and discusses the historical events and cultural climate that provided the backdrop for Fitzgerald's fiction. No other anthology offers so deep a contextual analysis.

The Norton Introduction to Literature

Bain, Carl E.

Hunter, J. Paul

Words, Language & Grammar

W.W.Norton & Company

Offering 59 stories, 458 poems, and 15 plays, this anthology provides a wider range of classic and contemporary works than any other three-genre anthology. Three new "Critical Contexts" casebooks introduce readers to examples of professional literary criticism, and editorial commentary throughout encourages readers to read thoughtfully, analytically, and creatively.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

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