The Norton anthology of English literatureVolume 1,: The Middle Ages (9th ed.)

The ninth edition offers more complete works, more teachable groupings than ever before and the apparatus teachers trust.

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New longer texts include: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in Simon Armitage's new translation, Sidney's Defense of Poetry, Wycherley's The Country Wife, Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Woolf's Mrs Dalloway and Beckett's Waiting for Godot (exclusive to Norton).