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The Norton Anthology of English Literature 8e

Complete Longer Works

★ indicates works new to the Eighth Edition

    Drama

  • ★ The York Crucifixion Play
  • The Wakefield Second Shepherds’ Play
  • Everyman
  • Marlowe: Doctor Faustus
  • Shakespeare: Twelfth Night, King Lear
  • Jonson: The Masque of Blackness, Volpone
  • Webster: The Duchess of Malfi
  • Congreve: The Way of the World
  • Gay: The Beggar’s Opera
  • Byron: Manfred
  • Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest
  • Shaw: Mrs. Warren’s Profession
  • Beckett: Endgame
  • Friel: ★ Translations
  • Pinter: The Dumb Waiter
  • Stoppard: ★ Arcadia
  • Novels and Short Fiction

  • More: ★ Utopia
  • Haywood: ★ Fantomina
  • Behn: Oroonoko
  • Johnson: ★ The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
  • Austen: ★ Love and Friendship
  • Barrett Browning: ★ The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point
  • Gaskell: The Old Nurse’s Song
  • Stevenson: ★ The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  • Kipling: The Man Who Would Be King
  • Hardy: On the Western Circuit
  • Conrad: Heart of Darkness
  • Forster: ★ The Other Boat
  • Woolf: A Room of One’s Own
  • Joyce: Araby, The Dead
  • Lawrence: Odor of Chrysanthemums, The Horse-Dealer’s Daughter
  • Mansfield: The Daughters of the Late Colonel, The Garden-Party
  • Rhys: ★ The Day They Burned the Books, ★ Let Them Call It Jazz
  • Lessing: To Room Nineteen
  • Gordimer: The Moment Before the Gun Went Off
  • Achebe: Things Fall Apart
  • Munro: Walker Brothers Cowboy
  • Naipaul: One Out of Many
  • Rushdie: The Prophet’s Hair
  • Longer Poems

  • Beowulf (verse translation by Seamus Heaney)
  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (translated by Marie Borroff)
  • Marlowe: Hero and Leander
  • Donne: Satire 3
  • Lanyer: The Description of Cookeham
  • Jonson: the Cary-Morison ode
  • Milton: Lycidas, Paradise Lost
  • Marvell: Upon Appleton House
  • Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel, Mac Flecknoe
  • Pope: The Rape of the Lock
  • Johnson: The Vanity of Human Wishes
  • Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
  • Goldsmith: The Deserted Village
  • Blake: The Book of Thel, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
  • Burns: Tam O’Shanter: A Tale
  • Wordsworth: The Thorn, The Ruined Cottage, Michael, Ode: Intimations of Immortality
  • Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
  • P. B. Shelley: Alastor, Adonais
  • Keats: Lamia, The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream
  • Barrett Browning: The Cry of the Children
  • Tennyson: The Lady of Shalott, The Coming of Arthur, The Passing of Arthur
  • Fitzgerald: ★ The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam (new complete version)
  • Browning: Fra Lippo Lippi, Andrea del Sarto, Rabbi Ben Ezra, Caliban upon Setebos
  • Arnold: The Scholar Gypsy
  • C. Rossetti: Goblin Market
  • Morris: The Defense of Guenevere
  • Eliot: The Waste Land