The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393978877 ISBN 13: 9780393978872

Publisher: W. W. Norton, 2003

Synopsis

With a wide variety of genres, authors, subjects, a nd styles, The Norton Reader offers the largest and most thoughtfully chosen collection of essays available in one volume. Fifty-four new essays maintain the Reader's long-standing balance of classic and contemporary, canonical and lesser-known selections. The Eleventh Edition also includes important new coverage of visual and spoken textsover fifty photographs, paintings, drawings, and other images that were originally published with the essays, as well as a new prose form chapter on the spoken word. Available in this Shorter Edition, with fourteen thematic chapte rs, The Norton Reader has been carefully designed to support a wide range of teaching styles and situations.

About this title

About the Author:

Linda H. Peterson (Ph.D., Brown University), General Editor, is a professor of English at Yale University and has published widely on nonfiction prose, notably women's autobiography and Victorian narrative. She has been co-director of the Bass Writing Program at Yale since 1979 and has served as president of the Council of Writing Program Administrators. John C. Brereton (Ph.D., Rutgers University) teaches composition at Brandeis University, where he also is the director of the university writing program. His scholarship focuses on the history of rhetoric and the history of teaching English and writing. He formerly taught at The University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is the author of another Norton book, Writing on the Job.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0393978877
• ISBN 13: 9780393978872
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1256
• Editor: Peterson Linda H., Brereton John C.