Customer Reviews

The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume F: The Twentieth Century and After

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The Entire Norton collection is a must-own for anyone, especially though interested in reading the classics. It includes every piece of "important" literature ever written, with very detailed, well-written commentaries and footnotes to help you understand the historical setting of the piece. I bought them for class last year and have never regretted it. I am thinking of getting the American set next.

I used this textbook for a graduate-level class on British Modernism. It contains all of the major modernists and many of the minor ones. Auden, Pound, Eliot, Lawrence, and Beckett are all here, some with larger anthologized sections than others (obviously). It also contains the entire text of Heart of Darkness and Beckett's "Endgame" as well. Buy it used to save yourself a lot of money, as the Nortons are incredibly expensive when new.

The reason why this got a 4 and not a 5 is because it took so long to get it. I don't mind a reasonable wait, but I needed it for a class. I was okay with waiting till mid-January, but the Beginning of February (and a month into the class I needed it for) was a bit much.