The Norton introduction to literature -- shorter fifth edition

By J. Paul Hunter, Carl E. Bain, Антон Павлович Чехов, Ambrose Bierce, Jerome Beaty, Margaret Atwood

Subjects: Union, Literature, Juvenile audience, Literature, collections, American Civil War, Imagination, Collections, civil war, Short Stories, Fiction, Confederate States of America, History, Classic Literature, hanging

Description: A balanced selection of classic and contemporary works by prominent and less-well-known writers. From Joyce, Hemingway, O'Connor, Auden, Stevens, Dickinson, Faulkner, Hawthorne, and Whitman, to Sharon Olds, Nicholson Baker, Carolyn Forché, Paul Ruffin, Salman Rushdie, Agha Shahid Ali, Eamon Grennan, Linda Pastan, Li-Young Lee, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Simon Ortiz, Seamus Heaney, Karen Volkman, and David Ives.