The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Volumes C, D, E
Now available in a portable multi-volume format, The Norton Anthology of
American Literature is the classic survey of American literature from its
sixteenth-century origins to its flourishing present.
The Sixth Edition offers the work of 242 writers30 newly includedrepresenting
the extraordinary wealth and diversity of American literature. Among the
many major works included in their
entirety are Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Thoreau's Walden, Douglass's
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Clemens's
Huckleberry Finn, Chopin's The Awakening, Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, Williams's
A Streetcar Named Desire, Larsen's Quicksand, Ginsberg's "Howl," Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross,
and Parks's The America Play. Informative introductions, headnotes, footnotes, and bibliographies accompany the texts.