The Norton Reader and The Little Seagull Handbook with Exercises

by Joseph Bizup (Editor), John C. Brereton (Editor), Anne Fernald (Editor)

The classic reader that has introduced millions of students to the essay as a genre.

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.

1152 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 1, 2016

Reviews

[Matt Sautman · Rating 4 out of 5]

As an anthology, the Norton Reader provides a large breadth of entries, but the 14th edition features some notable drawbacks from its past version. Over two hundred pages were cut out from the previous edition, and although some essays were replaced with me entries, what remains isn't universally provocative. Much of the text is hegemonic, with essays that neither call attention to invisible aspects of culture and history nor provide a new frame of reference through which one may consider other perspectives. There are authors and essays that do both of these things, but the representation here allows hegemonic perspectives to dominate the reading list. Reading this cover to cover was a chore. And while there were enough quality works in here that I don't think a lower review would give justice, my qualm with this anthology is strong enough that I can't ignore that aspect of this edition either.