Firmly grounded in the core strengths that have made it the best-selling undergraduate survey in the field, The Norton Anthology of American Literature has been revitalized in this Seventh Edition through the collaboration between three new period editors and five seasoned ones. Under Nina Baym's direction, the editors have considered afresh each selection and the entire apparatus to make the Shorter Edition an even better teaching tool for the one-semester and brief two-semester courses.

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The Eighth Edition features a diverse and balanced variety of works and thorough but judicious editorial apparatus throughout. The new edition also includes more complete works, much-requested new authors, 170 in-text images, new and re-thought contextual clusters, and other tools that help instructors teach the course they want to teach...

Product Description: Features authors such as Ben Franklin, Edgar Poe and Walt Whitman, providing a biography of each and a timeline of events that shaped each life.

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Product Description: Benjamin Franklin, the genius of early America, presents a system for achieving a high standard of ethics through Temperance, Silence, Order, Industry, Sincerity, Justice. This little handmade keepsake edition includes a current-day essay by Tom Tolnay on the connection between letterpress printing (one of Franklin's many skills) and human frailty...read more