The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces: 1650 To the Present

by Maynard Mack, Patricia Meyer Spacks, Pier Maria Pasinetti

Edited by scholars, translators and teachers of the literary traditions represented, The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces , Expanded Edition, offers nearly 3,000 pages per volume of the world's greatest literary landmarks, from early Egyptian love poetry to Chinua Achebe's stunning Things Fall Apart . Prized by teachers and students throughout the U.S. and Canada, this anthology is also the perfect introduction to the splendor of world literature for the lay reader.

Genres: Literature, Fiction, Anthologies, Reference, School

2 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1956

Reviews

[Leslie Alford]

Great place to start to learn about World Literature classics.

[Jordan]

I happened upon this book while at work and no one claimed it from the lost and found box after many many months. I have yet to read anything from it, but as I loved what I read from Volume 1, I have no doubt I will find these selections also amazing.

PART I 1650 TO 1800
Vernacular Literature in China
Wu Ch'eng-En, Cao Xueqin
The Ottoman Empire
Evliya Celebi
The Enlightenment in Europe
Jean-Baptiste Moliere, Jonathan Swift, Voltaire
The Rise of Popular Arts in Premodern Japan
Matsuo Basho, Ueda Akinari

PART II 1800 TO 1900
Revolution and ROmanticism in Europe and America
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Von Goethe, Keats, Victor Hugo,
Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville
Urdu Lyric Poetry in India
Ghalib
Realism, Symbolism and European Realities
Gustave Flaubert, Dostoevsky, Baudelaire, Tolstoy,
Ibsen, Chekov

PART III THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: SELF AND OTHER IN GLOBAL CONTEXT
Navajo Night Chant, Freud, Proust, Thomas Mann, James
Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Kafka, Various Inuit Songs, D.H.
Lawrence, Zuni Ritual Poetry, Frederico Garcia Lorca,
Samuel Beckett, Yehuda Amichai, Derek Walcott, Murakami
Haruki

[Jossalyn]

in college

[Noy]

I highly recommend this book to anyone who is a literature student. The World masterpieces is a bit hard to read at first, but once you get into the book, you'll appreciate it.