num_pages: 2601
description: 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 writers—30 newly included—representing 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. Package 2, "1865 to the Present," contains three slipcased "1965-1914" (Volume C), "Between the 1914-1945" (Volume D), and "Literature Since 1945" (Volume E).
language: English
title: The Norton Anthology of American Literature: Volumes C ,D, E
titlecomplete: The Norton Anthology of American Literature: Volumes C ,D, E (Norton Anthology)
genres: Fiction, American, Short Stories, Poetry, Collections, Anthologies, School, Literature, Classics, Textbooks
ratings_count: 403
publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc