The Norton Anthology of American Literature: Literature to 1820 (Volume A)
10 best books like The Norton Anthology of American Literature: Literature to 1820 (Volume A) (Nina Baym): The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, A Handbook to Literature, A Celtic Miscellany: Translations from the Celtic Literatures, Plays, Prose Writings and Poems, Selected Poems, Slave Narratives, The Norton Anthology of Children's Literature: The Traditions in English, Romanticism: An Anthology with CD-ROM, The Times Complete History of the World, The Greatest Music Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from Music History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy
| Author | Richard Bausch |
| ISBN | 0393926117 |
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction is a great place to start to get a sense for the landscape of the short story historically and across continents. Sure, you might take issue with some inclusions (Why this story? Why this author?) and some exclusions, but there is plenty here to learn from and get exposed...
| Author | William Harmon |
| ISBN | 0130127310 |
It is a handy book that can be read for pleasure. However, the publisher really doesn't need to update it every 3 years to force poor students to buy the new editions. In this 10th edition the editor admitted there was little substantial he could add. In fact, he mentioned his children suggested three new...
| Author | Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson |
| ISBN | 0140442472 |
Including works from Welsh, Irish and Scottish Gaelic, Cornish, Breton and Manx, this Celtic Miscellany offers a rich blend of poetry and prose from the eighth to the nineteenth century, and provides a unique insight into the minds and literature of the Celtic people. It is a literature dominated...
| Author | Oscar Wilde |
| ISBN | 1857150422 |
Brilliant and tragic, decadent yet radical, a socialist dandy and a witty moralist, Oscar Wilde embodied all the contradictions of the 1890s. The scope of his genius is indicated in this volume by the inclusion of the period’s most scintillating comedy – The Importance of Being Earnest; its most...
| Author | Charles Baudelaire |
| ISBN | 0140446249 |
The poems of Charles Baudelaire are filled with explicit and unsettling imagery, depicting with intensity every day subjects ignored by French literary conventions of his time. 'Tableaux parisiens' portrays the brutal life of Paris's thieves, drunkards and prostitutes amid the debris of factories...
| Author | William L. Andrews |
| ISBN | 1883011760 |
No literary genre speaks as directly and as eloquently to the brutal contradictions in American history as the slave narrative. The works collected in this volume present unflinching portrayals of the cruelty and degradation of slavery while testifying to the African-American struggle for freedom...
The Norton Anthology of Children's Literature: The Traditions in English
| Author | Jack D. Zipes |
| ISBN | 0393327760 |
The Norton Anthology of Children's Literature celebrates the richness and variety of over 350 years of literary works for children. This groundbreaking anthology includes 170 authors and illustrators of alphabets and animal fables, fairy tales and fantasy, picture books and nursery verse, among...
| Author | Duncan Wu |
| ISBN | 0631222693 |
The second edition of Romanticism: An Anthology is widely regarded as the most comprehensive collection available of poetry and prose by the British Romantics. This magnificent Anthology is now available as a package with David Miall and Duncan Wu's revolutionary Romanticism: The CD-ROM. Both...
| Author | Richard Overy |
| ISBN | 0007181299 |
The Times Complete History of the World has sold over 2,000,000 copies since its first publication in 1978. It is the most exciting, authoritative and accessible work on world history available today. Its exciting visual narrative of the history of the world from the origins of mankind to the 21st...
The Greatest Music Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from Music History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy
| Author | Rick Beyer |
| ISBN | 0061626988 |
کتاب از ماجرایی در ۵۰۰ سال قبل میلاد شروع و به سال ۲۰۰۷ ختم میشود. بیشتر داستانهای آن به موسیقی جز و راک برمیگردد و برای طرفداران این سبکها، حتما جذاب...
| Author | Glückel von Hameln |
| ISBN | 0805205721 |
Begun in 1690, this diary of a forty-four-year-old German Jewish widow, mother of fourteen children, tells how she guided the financial and personal destinies of her children, how she engaged in trade, ran her own factory, and promoted the welfare of her large family. Her memoir, a rare account of an...
| Author | M.H. Abrams |
| ISBN | 0393927172 |
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...
Practically a classic itself, Invitation to the Classics is a popular guide to those great works of literature that you always meant to read. Full color and engaging, this book is a gateway to the fulfilling pursuit of understanding our culture by exploring its most enduring writings.
"These sparkling...
The Norton Anthology of World Literature, Volume A, Beginning to A.D. 100
| Author | Sarah N. Lawall |
| ISBN | 0393924505 |
Leading the field once again, Norton is proud to publish the anthology for the new century, The Norton Anthology of World Literature, Second Edition. Now published in six paperback volumes (packaged in two attractive slipcases), the new anthology boasts slimmer volumes, thicker paper, a bolder...
| Author | Vincent B. Leitch |
| ISBN | 0393974294 |
This book does offer a huge selection of important critics. It is nice and heavy, and has a cool dust cover. As an introduction to theory for students, however, it is a bit overwhelming and doesn't offer much in the way of engagement with texts that other lit crit anthologies, such as Shirley Staton's "Literary...
| Author | Regie Routman |
| ISBN | 0325006016 |
What does great writing instruction look like and sound like How do successful teachers of writing get great writers who enjoy writing Where do they find the time for instruction assessment and test prep In Writing Essentials Regie Routman demystifies the process of teaching writing well and gives...
| Author | Martin E. Marty |
| ISBN | 1612616569 |
“This volume is small but weighty and a solid addition for all modern Christianity collections.” —Ray Olson, Booklist
With a foreword by James Martin, this classic reader on the Reformation by Martin Marty answers the question: Why is the Reformation relevant today?
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