The Norton Introduction to Literature

A diverse selection of literature

The Tenth Edition includes exciting new contemporary selections from graphic memoir (Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis) to experimental drama (Suzan-Lori Parks’s 365 Days / 365 Plays) to global fiction in English (Hanif Kureishi’s “Long Ago Yesterday”). More authors are represented by multiple selections, and chapters titled “The Longer Work” give teachers and students a chance to grapple with meaty, longer selections.

More flexible and innovative than ever

The new edition includes “albums” of thematically linked pieces, and an unparalleled collection of “contextual” chapters including a new chapter focusing on women’s lives in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century America, a new “Performance as Context” chapter in the Drama section, and new chapters on “The Author’s Work.”

The most helpful, carefully edited apparatus

The “Reading, Responding, Writing” sections at the beginning of each genre have been extensively revised to show students how to turn close reading into exemplary writing, and more writing prompts and suggestions have been added throughout. New writing samples have been added and introductory matter has been revised to be more direct, clear, and helpful.

Innovative and extensive emedia ancillaries

The Norton Introduction to Literature instructor media package offers tools for writing, close reading, and analysis, as well as media that show students how literature connects with the world around them. The instructor media package includes an Instructor Resource Disc, with lecture PowerPoints and multimedia slideshows that complement the new thematic clusters and contextual chapters, and a two CD instructor audio companion. DVDs of many of the plays are available to qualified adopters on request.

New LITWEB workshops

Fifty new and improved LITWEB workshops hone student’s close reading skills and encourage them to read and write analytically, offering extensive, unmatched help for student writers. These resources complement the book's pedagogical elements and help instructors guide their students to read, think about, and write about literature as creatively and analytically as possible.