Category: Anthologies

"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 the wome...
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Arthurian Romances (Everyman's Library)

By: Chretien de Troyes

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Tuttle: February 1997

Seller ID: 331871

ISBN: 046087389X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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 - Very Good

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

"The Longman Anthology of British Literature" is the most comprehensive and thoughtfully arranged book on the market. Approaching literature from a broad cultural perspective, the anthology offers a rich selection of fiction, drama, and poetry by major British authors. The second edition of "The Longman Anthology of British Literature" includes key additions of important works and an expanded illustration program. Fresh and up-to-date introductions and notes are written by an editorial team whose members are all actively engaged in teaching and in current scholarship, and one hundred illustrat...
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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 Modern Period. The book includes Perspectives, Companion Readings, and "and Its Time" sections which show how major literary writings interrelate with and respond to various social, historical, and cultural events of Great Britain in the Early Modern period. With a generous representation of fiction, drama, and poetry, the second edition includes major additions of important works an...
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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 together with more recently...
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The Longman Anthology of World Literature, Volume E: The Nineteenth Century (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: 286690

ISBN: 0205625916

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

"The Longman Anthology of World Literature, Volume E" offers a fresh and highly teachable presentation of the varieties of world literature from the 19th century.
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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.
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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 anthology that offers a rich selection of major British authors throughout the 20th Century. The anthology 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. With a generous representation of fiction, drama, and poetry, the second edition includes major additions of important works and an expanded illustration program. Fresh...
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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

GREAT BOOKS

By: David Denby

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: September 1997

Seller ID: 258845

ISBN: 0684835339

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER At the age of forty-eight, writer and film critic David Denby returned to Columbia University and re-enrolled in two core courses in Western civilization to confront the literary and philosophical masterpieces -- the "great books" -- that are now at the heart of the culture wars. In "Great Books, " he leads us on a glorious tour, a rediscovery and celebration of such authors as Homer and Boccaccio, Locke and Nietzsche. Conrad and Woolf. The resulting personal odyssey is an engaging blend of self-discovery, cultural commentary, reporting, criticism, and autobiograph...
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