The Norton Introduction to Literature (Shorter Edition)

Key differences between 12th and 11th editions

• Time lapse between current and previous publications: 3 years (2015 vs 2012).
• New Writing about Literature videos and Pause and Practice exercises
• New Chapter 9 "The Things They Carried" discusses collection of short stories by Tim O'Brien The Things They Carried
• Shorter Twelfth Edition includes many new works and selections:
• Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates
• The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara
• Black Box by Jennifer Egan
• The Gernsback Continuum by William Gibson
• Ballad of the Landlord by Langston Hughes
• The Kind of Man I Am at the DMV by Stacey Waite
• Identity Card by Mahmoud Darwish
• No Escape from the Old Country by Adrienne Su
• Carp Poem by Terrance Hayes
• This Be the Verse by Philip Larkin
• The Abuelita Poem by Paul Martinez Pompa
• My Love for You Is So Embarrassingly by Todd Boss
• The Facebook Sonnet by Sherman Alexie
• Diamond Haiku by Sue Standing
• Facing It by Yusef Komunyakaa
• Fences by August Wilson
• and many other