The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Expository Prose

by Arthur M. Eastman, Caesar R. Blake

715 pages Norton; 6th edition (1984) English 0393952991

Genres: Nonfiction, Literature, Anthologies, Reference, Essays, Writing, Classics

715 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1965

Reviews

[Ann M · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have the fourth edition.

[Karen · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read 4th edition, shorter edition (1977).

[Sigo Paolini · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have this one...the first and it's 1221 pages long and not 632. There is a table of contents which breaks the book into PERSONAL REPORT, On Language, On Education, On Mind, On Civilization, On Literature and the Arts, On Ethics, On Government, On History, On Science and finally On Religion. Next at 1197 is A compendious rhetoric and rhetorical index; List of Authors 1207 and finally Index 1217.

Hang on. This was going to go to the great sale when something caught my eye, Allan Seager's The Joy of Sport at Oxford, and I foolishly read it , now I see Mark Twain Stagecoaching to Virginia City, Huxley's Newspeak and on. Mark Twain has another on the DeerSlayer and James Fenimore Cooper. I cannot see reading this straight through. You read things that catch your eye -- at the time -- and then perhaps another until they are no longer of interest. Edith Hamilton's Xenophon was very good. A nice short was Wm March's The Dog and her rival with the bittersweet ending, "Love can be the most dreadful disguise that hate assumes." Amen to that..

That said, it's late October and I'm only half done and I am not sure I'm not going back to read some things I missed...its a good anthology if you chose right.