Summary The classic reader that has introduced millions of students to the essay as a genre - available in a concise edition. The Norton Reader features the largest and most diverse collection of essays, from classic to contemporary - 155 in the Full edition, 95 in the Shorter. With 60 new essays almost all written in the last decade, a new ebook option, and a unique companion website that makes the book searchable by theme, genre, rhetorical mode, author, keyword - and more, the Fourteenth Edition is ideal for today's composition classes.