Your Favorite Norton Anthology?

[HollyinNNV]

What is your favorite Norton Anthology to teach literature for high school? Or-if you have enjoyed using a different anthology, which one?
TIA!
Holly

[percytruffle]

Well, I am partial to the Norton Anthology of English Literature because I used the very same one in school. I convinced my teacher to let me keep it because they were purchasing new editions for the next year. I kept that text until my nephew, who was studying English in college, asked if he could have it! Egads. I gave it to him. He is now earning his PHD in Rhetoric. Anyway, I re-found the same text again at a used curriculum sale and snatched it up. Old habits die hard. We have used it as a suppliment. We also use the A Beka lit books as spines/suppliments.

The other Norton my dd used and has claimed as "hers" is the Norton Anthology of Science Fiction. She enjoyed that very much.

I never purchased any of the study guides for the Nortons we have because they are older editions, but the texts themselves were very inexpensive in comparison to purchasing new editions.

We own the two volume American lit Norton too, but use it far less.

A lit book I own that I really enjoy using as a reference is something a friend in the used textbook business gave me a few years back. He claimed it was really good and I agree. I like the selections as well as the wonderful introductions to each chapter. The historical background is pretty lengthy and conclusive for a lit book. That book is: Adventures in World Literature, Classic Edition by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Published in 1970, ISBN 0-15-335395-3.

[Mrs Mungo]

I agree with percytruffle, I feel the same way about all 5 books. I used them in college (with the exception of the Sci-Fi anthology).