The Norton Introduction to Literature

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The Norton Introduction to Literature, Portable Edition, offers a balanced selection of classic and contemporary stories, poems, and plays in a brief and affordable format. Designed to accommodate a wide range of teaching styles and needs, this inviting introduction includes helpful annotation and pedagogy, student writing samples, and rich multimedia resources.

Compact and Affordable

The trade paperback trim-size and briefer length of the Portable Edition make it the ideal choice for students on the go. At more than $20 less than larger anthologies, it is also an exceptional value.

Diverse Selections

The Portable Edition offers a rich selection of essential classic and contemporary works—205 poems, 30 short stories, and 8 plays.

Unrivaled Pedagogy

The Portable Edition’s suite of pedagogical elements—designed to help students read, think about, and write about literature as creatively and analytically as possible—includes extensive editorial introductions, end-of-selection questions and writing suggestions, student writing examples, and a thorough guide to writing about literature.

Free Access to Norton Literature Online

Norton Literature Online provides students with the most robust offering of literary resources on the Web, including an extensive glossary of literary terms, an invaluable “Writing about Literature” section, MLA documentation guidelines, links to textbook-specific sites that include student review materials, and much more. Access to Norton Literature Online is free with all new copies of the anthology.

Student CD-ROM

Using images, sounds, and exercises, this multimedia CD-ROM shows students how literature connects to the world around them, and how working with that connection can help them read and write about literature with increased skill and understanding.

LitWeb

This free student site offers tools for writing, close reading, and analysis as well as media that show students how literature connects with the world around them.

Features of LitWeb include: 50 newly revised LitWeb workshops hone students’ close reading skills and encourage them to read and write analytically. Many workshops include illustrations or other media; Multiple-Choice review quizzes for the “Writing about Literature” and for the “Reading, Responding, Writing” genre chapters; Reading comprehension multiple-choice review quizzes with answer feedback for more than 60 works; Avoiding Plagiarism and Research Writing Tutorials; 2009 MLA Documentation Guidelines; Glossary.

Teaching Poetry: A Handbook of Exercises for Large and Small Classes

Informed by Professor Gedalof’s considerable poetry-teaching experience, this practical handbook offers a wide variety of innovative in-class exercises designed to enliven classroom discussion. Each of these flexible teaching exercises includes straightforward, step-by-step guidelines and suggestions for variation. Free to adopters.

Instructor’s Manual

This thorough guide offers discussions of nearly all the works in the anthology as well as advice for instructors who teach writing through literature.

Video Cassettes and DVDs

Video Cassettes or DVDs of most of the plays in the anthology are available to qualified adopters.

Audio Companion

This two-CD companion to The Norton Introduction to Literature is available for classroom use to qualified adopters. The Audio Companion is a collection of readings, comprised of 28 poems, 4 short stories, and selections from 3 plays, including Eudora Welty reading Why I Live at the P.O., Garrison Keillor reading poems by Christopher Marlowe and Emily Dickinson, Lynn Redgrave and Michael Redgrave in a scene from Pygmalion, Lee J. Cobb as Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman, Raymond Carver’s Cathedral read by Peter Riegert; as well as many other authors reading their own works, including Maya Angelou, Willie Perdomo, Dylan Thomas, and Michael S. Harper.

Norton Resource Library

Additional instructor’s resources are available online at the Norton Resource Library.