The Art of the Tale: An International Anthology of Short Stories, 1945-1985
10 best books like The Art of the Tale: An International Anthology of Short Stories, 1945-1985 (Daniel Halpern): The Top 500 Poems, Contemporary American Poetry, The Norton Anthology of Modern & Contemporary Poetry, Vol 1: Modern Poetry, Poems for the Millennium, Vol. 1: Modern and Postmodern Poetry from Fin-de-Siècle to Negritude, Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond, The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry, The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Package 2: Volumes C, D, and E, The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry, Learning XML, The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories
The Top 500 Poems offers a vivid portrait of poetry in English, assembling a host of popular and enduring poems as chosen by critics, editors, poets, and general readers. These works speak across centuries, beginning with Chaucer's resourceful inventions and moving through Shakespeare's masterpieces,...
| Author | A. Poulin Jr. |
| ISBN | 0395745322 |
I own many books of poetry and a few poetry anthologies. It is rare that an anthology includes all of the poets whose work I admire, but this is one of those. As is the case for many anthologies, for those who are looking for samples of more experimental work, this is not for you. This includes the typical major...
| Author | Jahan Ramazani |
| ISBN | 0393977919 |
Thirty years later, this innovative, cover-to-cover revision renders with fresh eyes and meticulous care the remarkable range of styles, subjects, and voices in English-language poetry. The newly titled Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry now available in two paperback volumes...
| Author | Jerome Rothenberg |
| ISBN | 0520072278 |
As we come to the end of the century, the entire vista of modern poetry has dramatically changed. Poems for the Millennium captures the essence of that change, and unlike any anthology available today, it reveals the revolutionary concepts at the very heart of twentieth-century poetry.
International...
| Author | Tina Chang |
| ISBN | 0393332381 |
A landmark anthology, providing the most ambitious, far-reaching collection of contemporary Asian and Middle Eastern poetry available.
Language for a New Century celebrates the artistic and cultural forces flourishing today in the East, bringing together an unprecedented selection...
An enchanting collection of the very best of Russian poetry, edited by acclaimed translator Robert Chandler together with poets Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, poetry's pre-eminence in Russia was unchallenged, with Pushkin and...
| Author | Nina Baym |
| ISBN | 0393929949 |
This classic survey of American literature from its sixteenth-century origins to its flourishing present features the work of over 260 writers, with 34 newly included. Among the 36 works reproduced in their entirety are Franklin's Autobiography; The Scarlet Letter; Walden; Adventures of Huckleberry...
| Author | Ilya Kaminsky |
| ISBN | 0061583243 |
When your thoughts
don’t take you too far
and you are silent
as you tremble
and gaze
at the trellis of your hands.
When the chariot of your imagination
does not lead you into tunnels
lit up with apprehensions
and lightnings
as you remain silent
and...
| Author | Erik T. Ray |
| ISBN | 0596004206 |
The Barnes & Noble Review
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This book presents an outstanding birds-eye view of the...
| Author | Malcolm Bradbury |
| ISBN | 0140063064 |
This anthology is in many ways a 'best of the best', containing gems from thirty-four of Britain's outstanding contemporary writers. It is a book to dip into, to read from cover to cover, to lend to friends and read again. It includes stories of love and crime, stories touched with comedy and the supernatural,...
| Author | Mingwei Song |
| ISBN | 0231542542 |
A new wave of Chinese science fiction is here. This golden age has not only resurrected the genre but also subverted its own conventions. Going beyond political utopianism and technological optimism, contemporary Chinese writers conjure glittering visions and subversive experiments--ranging...
| Author | Lex Williford |
| ISBN | 0684857960 |
Selected from a survey of more than 200 English professors, award-winning short-story writers, novelists, and fiction workshop directors, a remarkable collection of North American literature written since 1970.
Includes:
This is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona by Sherman...
| Author | Ann Charters |
| ISBN | 0312397313 |
At almost 1800 pages, this is not a book to read in bed, unless you are a weightlifter as well as a reader, and have exceptionally strong wrists. The pages are thin, but it still weighs a ton! And that's exactly what it is—a ton of good reading.
Part One of the book is a collection of short stories...
| Author | Helen Vendler |
| ISBN | 0312257066 |
“Reality is a cliche from which we escape by metaphor.” It didn't take me long while reading Helen Vendler's introduction to poetry to remember this quote from Wallace Stevens, as so much of the best poetry deals with the flouting of conventions and the subverting of cliches. Perhaps the formulaic...
| Author | Joyce Carol Oates |
| ISBN | 0061661589 |
A definitive collection of the very best short stories by contemporary American masters
Edited by Joyce Carol Oates, "the living master of the short story" ("Buffalo News"), and Christopher R. Beha, this volume provides an important overview of the contemporary short story and a selection...
| Author | Paul Auster |
| ISBN | 0394717481 |
During the 20th Century, France was home to many of the world's greatest poets. This collection highlights some of the very best verse that came out of a country and century defined by war and liberation. Let Paul Auster guide you through some of the best poetry that 20th century France has to offer.
"Indispensable...
| Author | John Gross |
| ISBN | 0192840894 |
Now in a more readable format, this sweeping collection ranges from the early 1600s through the 1980s and includes 140 essays by 120 of the finest writers in the history of the English language. John Gross, former book critic for The New York Times, has collected classics and rare gems, representative...
The Best Creative Nonfiction, Vol. 1
| Author | Lee Gutkind |
| ISBN | 0393330036 |
Lee Gutkind, proclaimed the "Godfather behind creative nonfiction" by Vanity Fair, along with the staff of his landmark journal Creative Nonfiction, has culled alternative publications, 'zines, blogs, podcasts, literary journals, and other often overlooked publications in search of new voices...
“Look it up in Petzold†remains the decisive last word in answering questions about Windows development. And in PROGRAMMING WINDOWS, FIFTH EDITION, the esteemed Windows Pioneer Award winner revises his classic text with authoritative coverage of the latest versions of the Windows operating...
| Author | Leslie Lamport |
| ISBN | 0201529831 |
This authoritative user's guide and reference manual for the LATEX computer typesetting system has been revised to document features now available in the new standard software release - LATEX2e. The new edition features additional styles and functions, improved font handling, and enhanced graphics...
| Author | Frank Mittelbach |
| ISBN | 0201362996 |
This is the digial version of the printed book (Copyright (c) 2004).
The LaTeX Companion has long been the essential resource for anyone using LaTeX to create high-quality printed documents. This completely updated edition brings you all the latest information about LaTeX and the vast range...
Making Things Talk: Practical Methods for Connecting Physical Objects
| Author | Tom Igoe |
| ISBN | 0596510519 |
Building electronic projects that interact with the physical world is good fun. But when devices that you've built start to talk to each other, things really start to get interesting. Through a series of simple projects, you'll learn how to get your creations to communicate with one another by forming...
| Author | Dave Eggers |
| ISBN | 1932416919 |
Plunging straight into the grayish, faintly understood area of the art world that involves oddly drawn objects coupled with uncertainly spelled text, McSweeney's Issue 27 brings together a previously uncategorized cadre of pithy draftsmen, genius doodlers, and fine-artistic cartoonists, and...
| Author | Stephen Jones |
| ISBN | 1854872311 |
Written by one of the most important writers of the twentieth century, Lovecraft's 1927 essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature" traces the evolution of the genre from the early Gothic novels through to the work of contemporary American and British authors. Throughout Lovecraft acknowledges...
