The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction - Softcover

The Norton Reader features the largest and most diverse collection of essays, from classic to contemporary—155 in the Full edition, 95 in the Shorter. With 60 new essays almost all written in the last decade, a new ebook option, and a unique companion website that makes the book searchable by theme, genre, rhetorical mode, author, keyword—and more, the Fourteenth Edition is ideal for today’s composition classes.

Melissa A. Goldthwaite (Ph.D., The Ohio State University), General Editor, is Professor of English at Saint Joseph s University, where she teaches composition, creative writing, and rhetorical theory. Her books include Books That Cook: The Making of a Literary Meal (New York University Press, 2014), The Norton Pocketbook of Writing by Students (2010), Surveying the Literary Landscapes of Terry Tempest Williams (University of Utah Press, 2003), and The St. Martin s Guide to Teaching Writing (Bedford/St. Martin s, 2003, 2008, 2014).