The Norton Anthology of English LiteratureThe Norton Anthology of English Literature

With 274 authors, this 8th edition deepens its representation of essential works in all genres, ranging from Seamas Heaney's award-winning translation of "Beowulf," Milton's "Paradise Lost," and More's "Utopia," to the great poets and prose writers of the 19th century--Blake and Austen, Wordsworth and Byron, Tennyson and Barrett Browning--to 20th-century classics of a truly global English literature--Conrad's "Heart of Darkness," Woolf's "A Room of One's Own," Achebe's "Things Fall Apart," and Friel's "Translations," to name but a few.