The Norton Literature Library

The Norton Literature Library is a curated digital collection of Norton's best-selling literature titles. The unique collection boasting over 140 titles, combines Norton Critical Editions, our esteemed literature anthologies and texts, and robust teaching and learning tools into one unparalleled resource. It is designed to offer instructors a wide range of choices for their reading lists and to provide students with easy access to Norton’s high-quality texts and resources.

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What's Included in the Norton Literature Library?

The Norton Literature Library is made up of over 100 titles authored by leading scholars with high-quality pedagogical support, context and critical materials. It is a multidisciplinary collection of titles in literature, philosophy, history and ideas.

ANTHOLOGIES AND TEXTBOOKS

The cornerstone of Norton’s literature list, our anthologies are an essential part of undergraduate literature teaching. Showcasing exciting authors, works, and textual clusters that demonstrate the relevance of literature to contemporary students.

GREENBLATT, The Norton Anthology of English Literature 11e - Package 1

GREENBLATT, The Norton Anthology of English Literature 11e - Package 2

LEVINE, The Norton Anthology of American Literature 10e - Package 1

LEVINE, The Norton Anthology of American Literature 10e - Package 2

GREENBLATT, The Norton Shakespeare 3e

LAWTON, The Norton Chaucer

ACADEMIC WRITING CLUSTER:

GRAFF, They Say, I Say 6e

BULLOCK, The Little Seagull Handbook

HABIB, Literary Studies

InQuizitive for Writers - adaptive learning tool

NORTON CRITICAL EDITIONS

No series offers more pedagogical value than the Norton Critical Editions. Each volume combines everything students require for in-depth study and sets the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers.

ARISTOTLE, Poetics
AUSTEN, Pride and Prejudice
THE BHAGAVAD GITA
BOCCACCIO, The Decameron
BRONTE, Jane Eyre
BRONTE, Wuthering Heights
CARROLL, Alice in Wonderland
CATHER, My Antonia
CHAUCER, The Canterbury Tales: Seventeen Tales and the General Prologue
CHOPIN, The Awakening
THE CLASSIC FAIRY TALES
CONFUCIUS, The Analects
CONRAD, Heart of Darkness
CONRAD, The Secret Agent
DICKENS, Hard Times
DOSTOEVSKY, Crime and Punishment
DOUGLASS, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
THE ENGLISH BIBLE, King James Version, Volume 1: The Old Testament
THE ENGLISH BIBLE, King James Version, Volume 2: The New Testament
FITZGERALD, The Great Gatsby
HARDY, Jude the Obscure
HAWTHORNE, The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings
HEANEY Beowulf: A Verse Translation
HOMER The Odyssey
JAMES, The Turn of the Screw
JOHNSON, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
KAFKA, The Metamorphosis
KYD, The Spanish Tragedy

LAZARILLO DE TORMES MALTHUS, An Essay on the Principle of Population

MARIE DE FRANCE, Poetry
MAUPASSANT, Selected Works
MELVILLE, Moby-Dick or The Whale

MELVILLE, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities
MILTON, Paradise Lost
NORTHUP, Twelve Years a Slave
PROUST, Swann’s Way
THE QUR’AN
ROUSSEAU, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth
SHAKESPEARE, A Midsummer Night's Dream
SHAKESPEARE, Othello
SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet
SHAKESPEARE, The Tempest
SHELLEY, Frankenstein
SMOLLETT, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
SOR JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ, Selected Works
STEVENSON, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde and Other Writings
STOWE, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
TWAIN, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
VOLTAIRE, Candide
WEBSTER, The Duchess of Malfi
WILDE, The Importance of Being Earnest
WOOLF, Mrs. Dalloway
WOOLF, To the Lighthouse
WORDSWORTH, Wordsworth’s Poetry and Prose

THE NORTON LIBRARY

Edited and produced with the same care that Norton has devoted to its literary anthologies and other highly regarded texts, Norton Library titles include enticing introductions and helpful but unobtrusive annotations by leading writers.

ALCOTT, Little Women
ARISTOPHANES, Lysistrata
AUGUSTINE, Confessions
AUSTEN, Pride and Prejudice
AUSTEN, Emma
BOCCACCIO, The Decameron
BRONTE, Jane Eyre
BRONTE, Wuthering Heights
CHAUCER, The Canterbury Tales
CHESTNUTT, The Marrow of Tradition
CHOPIN, The Awakening
CONRAD, Heart of Darkness
DANTE, Inferno
DOSTOEVSKY, Crime and Punishment
DOSTOEVSKY, Notes from Underground
DOUGLASS, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
DU BOIS, The Souls of Black Folk
EURIPIDES, Medea
EURIPIDES, Bacchae
FITZGERALD, The Great Gatsby
HAWTHORNE, The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings
HOMER, The Odyssey

JACOBS, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
JOYCE, Dubliners
HOBBES, Leviathan
LOCKE, Second Treatise of Governments
MAHABARATA
MELVILLE, Moby-Dick or The Whale
MILL, Utilitarianism
MILTON, Paradise Lost
MURASAKI, The Tale of Genji
NORTHUP, Twelve Years a Slave
OVID, Metamorphoses
SHELLEY, Frankenstein
SINCLAIR, The Jungle
SOPHOCLES, Oedipus Tyrannos
STEVENSON, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde and Other Writings
STOKER, Dracula
STOWE, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
SWIFT, Gulliver’s Travels
THOREAU, Walden and Other Writings
WHARTON, The Age of Innocence
WOOLF, Mrs Dalloway

Key Benefits

Give your students more value for their money

With students already paying substantial tuition fees, there is an increasing expectation that the materials they need for their courses will be provided. Save them money on long reading lists.

All students using the same quality editions

All your students can be on the same page, enhancing collaborative learning. Stops students using online versions of texts that provide no critical apparatus or framework for analysis.

Encourages students to read across genres and periods

From timeless classics to contemporary masterpieces, the collection spans American Literature, World Literature, Religion, Politics, Mythology, British Literature, and more.

Access Options

We offer flexible packages to suit your institution and unique curriculum. There are two ways for your institution to access the collection, each offer their own benefits for you and your students:

Course access via LMS

Interactive ebooks with added audio and video
Annotation tools, including the ability to embed instructor content which appears in your students eBooks
Link directly to specific works in your LMS

University-wide access via the library network
Unlimited access to all students in your institution
We work with leading ebook partners - Kortext, VitalSource, VLEbooks, BibliU

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