Read by millions of students since its first publication, The Norton Anthology of World Literature remains the most-trusted anthology of world literature available. Guided by the advice of more than 500 teachers of world literature and a panel of regional specialists, the editors of the Shorter Third Edition—a completely new team of scholar-teachers—have made this respected text brand-new in all the best ways. Dozens of new selections and translations, all-new introductions and headnotes, hundreds of new illustrations, redesigned maps and timelines, and a wealth of media resources all add up to the most exciting, accessible, and teachable version of “the Norton” ever published.The Norton Anthology of World Literature is now available as an interactive ebook, at just a fraction of the print price. Martin Puchner , the Byron and Anita Wien Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University, is a prize-winning author, educator, public speaker, and institution-builder in the arts and humanities. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Suzanne Conklin Akbari is Professor of Medieval Studies in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Her books include Seeing Through the Veil: Optical Theory and Medieval Allegory (2004) and Idols in the East: European Representations of Islam and the Orient , 1100–1450 (2009). Among her edited volumes are Marco Polo and the Encounter of East and West (2008), co-edited with Amilcare Iannucci, and the Oxford Handbook to Chaucer (2020). Wiebke Denecke is S. C. Fang Professor of East Asian Literatures at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her publications include The Dynamics of Masters Literature: Early Chinese Thought from Confucius to Han Feizi (2010), Classical World Literatures: Sino-Japanese and Greco-Roman Comparisons (2014), The Oxford Handbook of Classical Chinese Literature (2017) and a three-volume literary history of Japan from an East Asian perspective (Nihon “bun”gakushi) (2015–19). Denecke is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of The Hsu-Tang Library of Classical Chinese Literature, a bilingual translation series, which features smartly scholarly and eminently readable translations of East Asian literatures in Chinese. Vinay Dharwadker (University of Wisconsin-Madison) is the author of Cosmopolitan Geographies: New Locations in Literature and Culture (2001) and a book of poetry, Sunday at the Lodi Gardens: Poems (1994). He is the editor of The Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry (1994) and The Collected Essays of A. K. Ramanujan (1999), and the translator of a collection of Kabir’s work called Kabir: The Weaver’s Songs (2003). Barbara Fuchs is Distinguished Professor of Spanish and English at UCLA, where she also directs the Diversifying the Classics project. She has published widely on early modern literature and culture as well as contemporary performance. Her most recent books are Knowing Fictions: Picaresque Reading in the Early Modern Hispanic World (Penn, 2021) and Theater of Lockdown: Digital and Distanced Performance in a Time of Pandemic (Bloomsbury 2021). Recent translations with Diversifying the Classics include Lope de Vega's The Beast of Hungary and Guillén de Castro's Don Quixote , both published by Juan de la Cuesta (2025). With Aina Soley and Robin Kello, she edited the anthology Golden Tongues: Adapting Hispanic Classical Theater in Los Angeles (Bloomsbury, 2024). Used Book in Good Condition