Category: Anthologies

"If readers are to come to Shakespeare and to Chekhov, to Henry James and to Jane Austen, then they are best prepared if they have read Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear, Robert Louis Stevenson and Rudyard Kipling," writes Harold Bloom in his introduction to this enchanting and much-needed anthology of exceptional stories and poems selected to inspire a lifelong love of reading. As television, video games, and the Internet threaten to distract young people from the solitary pleasures of reading, Bloom presents a volume that will amuse, challenge, and beguile readers with its myriad voices and subj...
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The Tales of the Heike (Translations from the Asian Classics)

By: Burton Watson

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Columbia University Press: June 2006

Seller ID: 288274

ISBN: 0231138024

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Tales of the Heike is one of the most influential works in Japanese literature and culture, remaining even today a crucial source for fiction, drama, and popular media. Originally written in the mid-thirteenth century, it features a cast of vivid characters and chronicles the epic Genpei war, a civil conflict that marked the end of the power of the Heike and changed the course of Japanese history. The Tales of the Heike focuses on the lives of both the samurai warriors who fought for two powerful twelfth-century Japanese clans-the Heike (Taira) and the Genji (Minamoto)-and th...
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From Karamzin to Bunin: An Anthology of Russian Short Stories

By: Carl R. Proffer

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Indiana University Press: January 1969

Seller ID: 350894

ISBN: 0253325064

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

... highly recommended.... This anthology of faithful translations of the classics is by far the best of its kind to come out for a long time." --Canadian Slavic Review

The Art of the Tale: An International Anthology of Short Stories

By: Daniel Halpern

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Penguin Books: August 1989

Seller ID: 216004

ISBN: 0140079491

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Eighty-one masterpieces by the world's best writers a surprising, irresistible collection of short stories from around the world."
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Six Gothic Tales

By: Daphne du Maurier,Evelyn Anthony,Victory Holt,Jessica North,Phyllis A. Whitney,Madeleein Brent

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Reader's Digest Association: January 1985

Seller ID: 331230

ISBN: 0895770601

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

David Copperfield's Tales of the Impossible

By: David Copperfield

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Harper Prism: December 1995

Seller ID: 106561

ISBN: 0061052280

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume II: Romantics to 20th Century (2nd Edition)

By: David Damrosch, Christopher Baswell, Clare Carroll, Kevin J. H. Dettmar, Heather Henderson, Constance Jordan, Peter J. Manning, Anne Howland Schotter, William Chapman Sharpe, Stuart Sherman, Jennifer Wicke, Susan J. Wolfson, Anne Howland

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Longman: October 2002

Seller ID: 69049

ISBN: 0321093895

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 1B: The Early Modern Period

By: David Damrosch, Clare Carroll, Constance Jordan

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Longman: August 2002

Seller ID: 267769

ISBN: 0321105788

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Volume 1B: The Early Modern Period of The Longman Anthology of British Literature is a comprehensive and thoughtfully arranged anthology that offers a rich selection of major British authors throughout the Early.
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The Longman Anthology of World Literature, Volume D: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (2nd Edition)

By: David Damrosch, David L. Pike, April Alliston, Marshall Brown, Page duBois, Sabry Hafez, Ursula K. Heise, Djelal Kadir, Sheldon Pollock, Bruce Robbins, Haruo Shirane, Jane Tylus, Pauline Yu

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Longman: July 2008

Seller ID: 286691

ISBN: 0205625908

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Longman Anthology of World Literature, Volume D offers a fresh and highly teachable presentation of the varieties of world literature from the 17th and 18th centuries.

The Longman Anthology of World Literature, Volume F: The Twentieth Century (2nd Edition) (Damrosch Series)

By: David Damrosch, David L. Pike, April Alliston, Marshall Brown, Page duBois, Sabry Hafez, Ursula K. Heise, Djelal Kadir, Sheldon Pollock, Bruce Robbins, Haruo Shirane, Jane Tylus, Pauline Yu

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Longman: July 2008

Seller ID: 286689

ISBN: 0205625940

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

The Longman Anthology of World Literature, Volume F offers a fresh and highly teachable presentation of the varieties of world literature from the 20th century.

The editors of the anthology have sought to find economical ways to place texts within their cultural contexts, and have selected and grouped our materials in ways intended to foster connections and conversations across the anthology, between eras as well as regions.

The anthology includes epic, lyric poetry, drama, and prose narrative, with many works in their entirety. Classic major authors are presented tog...
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The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 2C: The Twentieth Century (2nd Edition)

By: David Damrosch, Kevin Dettmar, Jennifer Wicke

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Longman: July 2002

Seller ID: 262004

ISBN: 032110580X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Volume 2C: The 20th Century of The Longman Anthology of British Literature is a comprehensive and thoughtfully arranged text that offers a rich selection of major British authors throughout the 20th Century. The text includes Perspectives and Companion Readings, which show how major literary writings interrelate with and respond to various social, historical, and cultural events of Great Britain in the 20th Century.
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The Longman Anthology of British Literature (The Victorian Age)

By: David Damrosch, Peter Manning, Anne Schotter, William Sharpe, Stuart Sherman

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Addison-Wesley: August 1999

Seller ID: 267768

ISBN: 0321067665

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Anthology of Japanese Literature from the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century

By: DONALD KEENE

Price: $5.95

Publisher: N/A: March 1960

Seller ID: 320439

ISBN: 0802150586

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The sweep of Japanese literature in all its great variety was made available to Western readers for the first time in this anthology. Every genre and style, from the celebrated No plays to the poetry and novels of the seventeenth century, find a place in this book. An introduction by Donald Keene places the selections in their proper historical context, allowing the readers to enjoy the book both as literature and as a guide to the cultural history of Japan. Selections include Man yoshu or Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves from the ancient period; Kokinshu or Collection of Ancient and Modern P...
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