The ninth edition offers more complete works, more teachable groupings than ever before and the apparatus teachers trust. Read by more than 8 million students, The Norton Anthology of English Literature sets the standard. New longer texts include: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in Simon Armitage's new translation, Sidney's Defense of Poetry, Wycherley's The Country Wife, Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Woolf's Mrs Dalloway and Beckett's Waiting for Godot (exclusive to Norton).