Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces: The Western Tradition, Vol. 1: Literature of Western Culture Through the Renaiss by Maynard Mack

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The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces: Beginnings to 1650

by Maynard MacK

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Info:	W W Norton & Co Inc (1995), Edition: Expanded, Paperback, 3022 pages
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It claims to be an anthology of world masterpieces, but the works from outside Europe that are included are pieces of the Bible, the Koran and Gilgamesh, and the only works from Eastern Europe are from Ancient Greece. If you're looking for Western literature with few surprises, then this volume does the predictable job of providing a wide array of Western literature, much of it sliced and diced to fit as much variety as possible in 2000 pages. (E.g., of Paradise Lost, the sixth edition has book 9, and excerpts from books 1, 10 and 12.) But that is the nature of an anthology trying to cover such a broad field.

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Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0393963462, Paperback)

In 1995, Norton changed the way world literature is taught by introducing The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, Expanded Edition. 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 2 slipcased sets (this set, Package 1, contains three volumes covering from the beginnings of world lit to 1650), the new anthology boasts slimmer volumes, thicker paper, a bolder typeface, and dozens of newly included or newly translated works from around the world.

The Norton Anthology of World Literature represents continuity as well as change. Like its predecessor, the anthology is a compact library of world literature, offering an astounding forty-three complete longer works, more than fifty prose works, over one hundred lyric poems, and twenty-three plays. More portable, more suitable for period courses, more pleasant to read, and more attuned to current teaching and research trends, The Norton Anthology of World Literature remains the most authoritative, comprehensive, and teachable anthology for the world literature survey.

Included in this set are:

The Norton Anthology of World Literature, Volume A: Beginnings to A.D. 100 (ISBN 0393977552)

The Norton Anthology of World Literature, Volume B: 100 to 1500 (ISBN 0393977560)

The Norton Anthology of World Literature, Volume C: 1500 to 1650 (ISBN 0393977579)

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