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The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. A: Middle Ages
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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 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,
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 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.
The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology
Kevin Crossley-Holland · 308 pages
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.
Six Centuries of English Poetry from Tennyson to Chaucer: Typical Selections from the Great Poets (1892)
James Baldwin
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 Complete Stories of Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll · 792 pages
The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Frost
Harold Bloom · 1,008 pages
The Complete Fairy Tales
Hans Christian Andersen · 286 pages
Sixteen tales including "Little Claus and Big Claus," "Father's Always Right," and "The Goblin and the Grocer."
Dubliners
James Joyce · 226 pages
James Joyce's disillusion with the publication of Dubliners in 1914 was the result of ten years battling with publishers, resisting their demands to remove swear words, real place names and much else, including two entire stories. Although only 24 when he signed his first publishing contract for the book, Joyce already knew its worth: to alter it in any way would 'retard the course of civilisation
Short Stories from the Nineteenth Century
Charles Dickens, Bram Stoker, Guy de Maupassant, Anton Chekhov, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Charles Lamb, O. Henry, Thomas Hardy, Wilkie Collins, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, H.G. Wells, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, Oscar Wilde · 240 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 Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction
Ann Charters · 1,060 pages
Everyone likes a good story. The Story and Its Writer is an anthology of great stories like William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues," and Alice Walker's "Everyday Use." It is also a collection of great writers speaking about their craft. In these pages you can read a Raymond Carver story and then his recollection of taking his first college creative writing course. Yo