jenniferlee Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 I know it says that if you don't get the current edition it won't match page numbers in the guide, but the older editions are soooo much cheaper, I am just wondering how much of a difference it will make. Anyone else deal with this? thanks Jen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swimmermom3 Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 Jen, the Amazon description says that the eighth edition has 37 new authors and 150 new works, so matching pages may not be your only problem. However, you may find for ancient period that many of the works are available online, which has been my experience in looking at various translations. I am having trouble on Amazon even finding an earlier edition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChemMommy Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 I used an older edition. We just had to look up the literature in the table of contents. If something was missing, we tried to find it on-line. If that didn't work out, oh, well! We skipped it. No guilt. TOG1 (and all of the levels, really) have more reading than a typical ps school, so missing one is not a big deal. It was more of a pain to look up all the poems because there were so many of them in TOG 2. BUT, for the price, older is fine. HTH!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klmama Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 Have you checked your library? I've been amazed at how many Norton anthologies ours has. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Candid Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 Norton puts up the table of contents of the current volume: http://media.wwnorton.com/cms/contents/na_westlit_v1.pdf It will take some aligning, but I'd guess that you'll be mostly fine. Ancients will probably be a breeze. I'd even be willing to guess that most of the new stuff is in the second volume with more modern writers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenniferlee Posted July 20, 2012 Author Share Posted July 20, 2012 Thanks for the help! I think I'll try to make it work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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