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Broadview Anthology of British Literature Concise Volume A

By: Joseph Black

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Broadview Press: March 2007

Seller ID: 287151

ISBN: 1551118688

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The two-volume Broadview Anthology of British Literature, Concise Edition provides an attractive alternative to the full six-volume anthology. Though much more compact, the concise edition nevertheless provides instructors with substantial choice, offering both a strong selection of canonical authors and a sampling of lesser-known works. With an unparalleled number of illustrations and contextual materials, accessible and engaging introductions, and full explanatory annotations, the concise edition of this acclaimed Broadview anthology provides focused yet wide-ranging coverage for British lit...
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The Seagull Reader: Stories (Second Edition)

By: Joseph Kelly

Price: $5.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: December 2007

Seller ID: 155743

ISBN: 0393930912

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Each volume offers an inviting mix of classics and less familiar pieces, complemented by concise genre introductions, short headnotes and annotations, brief author biographies, and a glossary of terms. The Readers also include access to innovative writing tips, study and review material, and much more at LitWeb and Norton Literature Online.
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The Oxford Book of American Short Stories

By: JOYCE CAROL OATES

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA: October 1992

Seller ID: 315123

ISBN: 0195070658

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

"How ironic," Joyce Carol Oates writes in her introduction to this marvelous collection, "that in our age of rapid mass-production and the easy proliferation of consumer products, the richness and diversity of the American literary imagination should be so misrepresented in most anthologies." Why, she asks, when writers such as Samuel Clemens, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Saul Bellow, and John Updike have among them written hundreds of short stories, do anthologists settle on the same two or three titles by each author again and again? "Isn't the implicit promise of an...
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In Short: A Collection of Brief Creative Nonfiction

By: Judith Kitchen

Price: $6.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: July 1996

Seller ID: 327276

ISBN: 0393314928

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Something is going on out there. Almost simultaneously, many of our finest writers are experimenting with a new nonfiction form: brief pieces that are literary and personal rather than informational, complete in themselves, and short very short. Although the form has not had a name until now, the writers who are atrracted to it include the known Tim O'Brien, Barry Lopez, Terry Tempest Williams, Michael Ondaatje as well as just-discovered voices in the field of creative nonfiction, a genre that is transforming the essay. Delights and surprises await the reader in this rich gathering of Shorts (...
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The Italian Renaissance Reader (Meridian S)

By: JULIA CONAWAY BONDANELLA, MARK MUSA

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Plume: November 1987

Seller ID: 256997

ISBN: 0452010136

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

A single volume introduction to the major writers of the Italian Renaissance--Petrarch, Boccaccio, Alberti, della Mirandola, da Vinci, Castiglione, Machiavelli, Buonarroti, Guicciardini, Cellini, and Vasari.
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The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology (The World's Classics)

By: Kevin Crossley-Holland

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA: February 1984

Seller ID: 235156

ISBN: 0192816322

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Crossley-Holland--the widely acclaimed translator of Old English texts--introduces the Anglo-Saxons through their chronicles, laws, letters, charters, and poetry, with many of the greatest surviving poems printed in their entirety.
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European Authors 1000-1900

By: Kunitz & Colby

Price: $11.95

Publisher: H.W. WILSON COMPANY: January 1967

Seller ID: 69048

ISBN: B0014OJC8W

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology

By: Lawn, Beverly

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's: July 2012

Seller ID: 324004

ISBN: 1457604752

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

"40 Short Stories," part of the highly successful Bedford/St. Martin's portable series of anthologies and guides, continues to offer a balanced mix of classic and contemporary short fiction for a low price. Editorial features -- such as instruction on how to write about fiction and a glossary of literary terms -- are located in the back of the book so the focus can remain on the stories. The stories themselves are arranged chronologically to help students trace the evolution of the short story genre. This book's small size, low price, and versatility make it the perfect anthology for a vari...
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After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays

By: Lazar, David; Patrick Madden

Price: $7.95

Publisher: University of Georgia Press: February 2017

Seller ID: 348164

ISBN: 0820351377

Condition: Used - Acceptable

A Quarto of Modern Literature

By: leonard brown

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Scribner: January 1964

Seller ID: 149857

ISBN: B000H5AT2M

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

The Experience of Literature: A Reader With Commentaries

By: Lionel Trilling

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Doubleday: June 1967

Seller ID: 325183

ISBN: 0385013949

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Norton Anthology of English Literature

By: M. H. Abrams

Price: $4.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: December 1999

Seller ID: 214244

ISBN: 0393975657

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Major Authors

By: M. H. Abrams

Price: $7.95

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc: January 2001

Seller ID: 318131

ISBN: 0393947513

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Norton Anthology of English Literature: 2

By: M. H. Abrams

Price: $7.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: January 2006

Seller ID: 319724

ISBN: 0393925323

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Firmly grounded by the hallmark strengths of all Norton Anthologies thorough and helpful introductory matter, judicious annotation, complete texts wherever possible The Norton Anthology of English Literature has been revitalized in this Eighth Edition through the collaboration between six new editors and six seasoned ones. Under the direction of Stephen Greenblatt, General Editor, the editors have reconsidered all aspects of the anthology to make it an even better teaching tool.
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Major Authors

By: M. H. Abrams

Price: $6.95

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc: January 2001

Seller ID: 322549

ISBN: 0393947513

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Epic of Russian Literature from its origins to Tolstoy (Galaxy Books)

By: Marc Slonim

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press: January 1975

Seller ID: 287229

ISBN: 0195007131

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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Reformd Coquet : Or Memoirs of Amoranda : Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady and the Accomplished Rake, or Modern Fine Gentleman

By: MARY DAVYS, MARTHA F. BOWDEN

Price: $5.95

Publisher: N/A: September 1999

Seller ID: 178017

ISBN: 0813109698

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

" The Reform'd Coquette (1724) tells the story of Amoranda, a good but flighty young woman whose tendency toward careless behavior is finally tamed. Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady (1725), a satire of both political debate and women's place in society, portrays a Tory man and a Whig woman who find themselves discussing love, even though they have pledged to remain platonic friends. The Accomplish'd Rake (1727) follows the exploits of Sir John Galliard from youth to manhood, when he is forced to accept responsibility for his actions. Mary Davys (1674?-1732) was one of the ear...
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