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The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Expository Pose (Ninth Edition) | 
 enlarge | Creators: Joan Hartman, John C. Brereton, Linda H. Peterson
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 996251
Media: Paperback
Edition: 9th
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 1340
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.6 x 1.9
ISBN: 039396826X
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.888
EAN: 9780393968262
ASIN: 039396826X
Publication Date: October 1995
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Product Description
With a wide variety of genres, authors, subjects, and styles, The Norton Reader offers the largest and most thoughtfully chosen collection of essays available in one volume. New essays maintain the Reader's long-standing balance of classic and contemporary, canonical and lesser-known selections. The Twelfth Edition also includes important new coverage of visual and spoken texts—photographs, paintings, drawings, and other images that were originally published with the essays.
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 Norton is a reader October 1, 2008
I purchased this for my non-fiction english class and have not yet read through all of it; but from what I have seen and from what I plan on reading outside of the course, this anthology is great! Buy it if you like essayists, controversial topics, or if you just like to read an occasional quick story.
good read. February 29, 2004
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
We've used this in my english class a lot. Someone is selected to analyze an essay, write about its style, content, and other features, and then the student writes down a couple discussion questions and then leads a discussion each friday about the essay. I have found each of the essays informative and educational. Some are rather dry, some are sarcastic, some are flat out funny. There are essays of length (10+ pages) and then some that cover only a few pages. The essays cover such subtopics as patriotism, nature, education, politics, and forms of writing. Combining all of these essays together into one book leads to a great read that, finding a way to suit anyone's interests.
Fabulous Stories December 1, 2002
6 out of 12 found this review helpful
College English text yes, but contains a huge variety of stories from notable writers. Short stories yes, but great for those who don't want to delve into full-length novels. Also contains questions to think about after many of the essays and mini biographies of the authors.
 Its a school book June 27, 2002
13 out of 33 found this review helpful
I bought this book for a college class and the next semester they changed the book. I read some things on my own and found some good but I don't think it was worth the money. I still have it though because when I read it, it makes me feel smart. Plus they come out with new ones all the time...dont buy it new. Just get a used one. All they change is the cover and a couple inserts so the pages are different and you think its different than the old one. Dont be fooled.
Even A Liberal Can Write A Good Essay January 15, 2002
10 out of 23 found this review helpful
Although the editorial selection clearly slants to the left, and is bubbling with postmodernism, many of the essays here are quite enjoyable, especially the humorous prose of James Thurber and Mark Twain, and George Orwell's "Politics and the English Lanuage" is delightfully informative. The best expositionary anthology I've yet seen.
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