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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 820.8 EAN: 9780393925319 Edition: 8th ISBN: 0393925315 Label: W. W. Norton Manufacturer: W. W. Norton Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 2904 Publication Date: October 01, 2005 Publisher: W. W. Norton Studio: W. W. Norton Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: A legendary bestseller for more than forty years, this is the classic survey to the field from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. With 274 authors, the Eighth Edition deepens its representation of essential works in all genres, ranging from Seamas Heaney's award-winning translation of Beowulf, Milton's Paradise Lost, and More's Utopia to the great poets and prose writers of the nineteenth century—Blake and Austen, Wordsworth and Byron, Tennyson and Barrett Browning—to twentieth-century classics of a truly global English literature—Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Woolf's A Room of One's Own, Achebe's Things Fall Apart, and Friel's Translations, to name but a few. Color plates—over 75 in all—and thematic clusters of brief and historically significant texts bring to life the cultural concerns of each period. Concise glosses and annotations, period introductions, biographical headnotes, timelines, and selected bibliographies help readers understand and enjoy the rich diversity of English literature. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - HeavyI really like the material within the book. I did not realize that it was one huge book instead of 2-3 smaller books. It is awkward to carry to class so if you need a book to handle with comfort get the separate volumes. As for content it is very good! Rating:  - 4 Stars I would have given this anthology 5 stars were it not for one small problem. It is paperback and it is extremely large. This is quite literally enough material to have split up into two separate volumes. It is available hardbound and, had I been offered that option at checkout, I would have preferred it. Rating: - Thanks!Purchased as a set with Volume 2 (great idea by the way to package them for one low price). Came just in time, great study tool for class, as I'm an English major. Rating: - Required TextbookThis was a required textbook for a college course. Once again I saved $$$$ by buying my textbooks, new and used, at Amazon and another major on-line auction house. Why anyone would line up like lemmings to get slaughter by the high prices and poor service at college bookstores is beyond my meager comprehension. While everyone else was spending hours in line holding 20 pounds of books, I was one clicking and having my books in a couple days. Rating:  - Ahh! Get a cup of tea, find a cozy spot, and settle in...If you're a book lover, how can you not love a book like this? It was my required reading for a literature class, and I was all too happy to have an excuse to buy it. Satisfyingly fat at 3000 pages, it exudes that delicious book smell when you flip through it, and its matte-sheen cover feels good in your hands and protects its sizable contents quite well. For me, this was worth getting just for Seamus Heaney's wonderful translation of Beowulf. You can smell the ocean and hear the armor ... Read More 
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