Offering a library of Western literature in a portable format, The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, Seventh Edition, includes 41 complete longer works, over 230 lyric poems, and 32 short prose works in accurate, authoritative, and.readable translations. Maps, timelines, and pronouncing glossaries, all new to the Seventh Edition,help students read works with confidence and in context. With the Seventh Edition,the anthology continues to evolve--responding to the changing needs of instructors and students by adding new texts and new apparatus--while maintaining Norton's standards of reliability and excellence.