The Norton Anthology of American Literature: shorter fifth edition / General editor Nina Baym. – New York, London: Norton & Company Inc., 1999. – 2880 p.
Like earlier editions of the one-volume, shorter Norton Anthology of American Literature, this Fifth Edition is designed for the one-semester course and draws on the full resources of the two-volume parent edition. It aims to present a selection of works sufficiently rich, diverse, and complete to enable the book to stand alone for teachers who prefer to use a single anthology, while serving as a core text for those who wish to assign additional individual works as well. As with earlier editions, the editors have worked closely with teachers who assign the book and, through these teachers, with the students who use it.