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The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. C: The Restoration & the Eighteenth Century
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Include books by the same authorThe Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Major Authors
M.H. Abrams, Stephen Greenblatt · 1,214 pages
The Longman Anthology of British Literature
David Damrosch, Stuart Sherman, Christopher Baswell · 1,079 pages
The Norton Anthology Of Literature By Women: The Traditions In English
Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar · 2,452 pages
Contains selections written by over 150 women authors from English-speaking countries. Ranges from the fourteenth century to the present.
Norton Anthology of Poetry
Alexander W. Allison · 1,479 pages
Offers over 1400 poems by more than 200 poets written in English from early medieval time to the present.
The Complete Works
William Shakespeare · 1,248 pages
First published in 1906 this edition of Shakespeare's Complete Works by W• J. Craig has been many times reprinted. The spelling has been modernized, and the punctuation revised. A short glossary of obsolete words is provided, and there is also an index of characters and of the first lines of songs. The drawing on the jacket, a reconstruction of the Fortune Theatre, 1600, is by C. Walter Hodges,
The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology
Kevin Crossley-Holland · 308 pages
Six Centuries of English Poetry from Tennyson to Chaucer: Typical Selections from the Great Poets (1892)
James Baldwin
The Portable Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters · 625 pages
The collection includes excerpts, chronologically arranged, from novels which make up the Legend of Duluoz. Kerouac appears as a child in Doctor Sax, as a teenager in Maggie Cassidy, as a young man in On the Road, as a road-wary traveler in Tristessa, as a committed seeker of truth in the Dharma Bums, and as a man at the end of the road in Satori in Paris.
The Tolkien Reader
J.R.R. Tolkien · 290 pages
Anthology of Works, published 1966, including poems, short stories, a play, and some non fiction. Compilation of materials previously published as "Tree and Leaf", "Farmer Giles of Ham," and "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil", along with one additional piece and intro material.
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer · 506 pages
A collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century. The tales (mostly in verse, although some are in prose) are told as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. In a long list of works, including Troilus and Criseyde, Hous
The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Frost
Harold Bloom · 1,008 pages
Good Poems for Hard Times
Charles Bukowski, Robert Burns, Hayden Carruth, Raymond Carver, Billy Collins, Noel Coward, Carl Dennis, E.E. Cummings, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Dobyns, Fleur Adcock, John Donne, Rita Dove, Stephen Dunn, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Robert Frost, Erica Funkhouser, Donald Hall, Patricia Hampl, Thomas Hardy · 356 pages
From the beloved creator of A Prairie Home Companion, a timely, thoughtful collection of poems that provide solace and wisdomWhen Garrison Keillor published Good Poems, he touched a chord in readers across America. The anthology of poems he selected for their "wit, their simplicity, their passion, and their utter clarity in the face of everything else a person has to deal with" inspired thousands
The Complete Stories of Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll · 792 pages
The Rattle Bag: An Anthology of Poetry
Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes · 498 pages
The Top 500 Poems
William Harmon · 1,132 pages
The pop title is right out of Billboard (the publisher must think poetry needs all the crossover it can get), but the collection is quite terrific--not necessarily the greatest poems (best to avoid that can of worms), but the 500 English-language poems that have appealed most often to 400 contemporary editors, critics, and poets for inclusion in their own widely disparate anthologies, which were i
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume II A
C.M. Kornbluth, Lester del Rey, Robert A. Heinlein, Theodore Sturgeon, Henry Kuttner, C.L. Moore, Eric Frank Russell, H.G. Wells, Jack Williamson, Cordwainer Smith, Poul Anderson, John W. Campbell Jr. · 550 pages
The Blue Fairy Book
Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang · 377 pages
The Blue Fairy Book was the first volume in the series and so it contains some of the best known tales, taken from a variety of sources: not only from Grimm, but exciting adventures by Charles Perrault and Madame D'Aulnoy, the Arabian Nights, and other stories from popular traditions. Here in one attractive paperbound volume - with enlarged print - are Sleeping Beauty, Rumpelstiltzkin, Beauty and
Great American Short Stories: From Hawthorne to Hemingway
Charles W. Chesnutt, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edith Wharton · 560 pages
[Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- [The birthmark](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455204W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- [Rappaccini's daughter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455378W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) / Edgar Allan Poe -- [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/