Read by more than 2. 5 million students over 30 years, The Norton Anthology of American Literature sets the standard and remains an unmatched value. The Eighth Edition features a diverse and balanced variety of works and thorough but judicious editorial apparatus throughout. The new edition also includes more complete works, much-requested new authors, 170 in-text images, new and re-thought contextual clusters, and other tools that help instructors teach the course they want to teach.