The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. C: The Restoration & the Eighteenth Century
10 best books like The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. C: The Restoration & the Eighteenth Century (M.H. Abrams): Twelfth Night, The Norton Shakespeare, Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again, Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume II, The Portable Romantic Poets: Blake to Poe, The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Shorter Fifth Edition, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, The Norton Anthology Of American Literature, Why Read?, Unfortunate English: The Gloomy Truth Behind the Words You Use
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| ISBN | 0743482778 |
Named for the twelfth night after Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays with love and power. The Countess Olivia, a woman with her own household, attracts Duke (or Count) Orsino. Two other would-be suitors are her pretentious steward, Malvolio, and Sir Andrew Aguecheek.
Onto...
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| ISBN | 0393041077 |
UPDATE REVIEW!
I have just read every Shakespeare play from this edition and than some. This has been a goal of mine for some time. Some plays I've read previously for various classes in high school and college, but there was a bit of his stuff I never read before and some stuff I didn't even realize that...
Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again
| Author | Frank Miller |
| ISBN | 1563899299 |
It's been three years since the events of The Dark Knight Returns, and everything is just fine. At least on the surface. What the world at large doesn't know is that it's a total sham. A perfectly choreographed, pretty little world where everything that's ugly, or even potentially disturbing,...
| Author | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| ISBN | 0553212427 |
Since his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created.
Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan...
| Author | W.H. Auden |
| ISBN | 0140150528 |
This volume, edited and with a superb introduction by W.H. Auden and Norman Holmes Pearson, presents the greatest of the Romantics in all the fullness and ardor of their vision, including William Blake, Robert Burns, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley,...
| Author | Margaret Ferguson |
| ISBN | 0393979210 |
Great anthology, but I’m surprised that there are some key missing poems from famous poets... lots missing from ee cummings but that makes sense because they can’t include ~every~ poem he’s written. I’m surprised they chose “A Blessing” over “Lying on a Hammock at William Duffy’s...
| Author | Marcia Williams |
| ISBN | 0763631973 |
Canterbury Tales are a bit bawdy.This is a version adapted for children. Some of the thematic elements just can't be avoided! And humor during the middle ages included potty humor (read: tooting and whatnot). That being said, I thought this was done appropriately and the girls think it is HYSTERICAL....
| Author | Nina Baym |
| ISBN | 0393958728 |
The editors chosen poets and writers of 1914-1945 shaped the depressing, radical, self-loathing underbelly of American youth of that generation. The biographies favor the atheists, agnostics, promiscuous, womanizing, socialists, communists, traitors (Mussolini-supporter Ezra Pound went...
| Author | Mark Edmundson |
| ISBN | 1582346089 |
•A PSLA Young Adult Top 40 (or so) non-fiction title 2004
In this important book, acclaimed author Mark Edmundson reconceives the value and promise of reading. He enjoins educators to stop offering up literature as facile entertainment and instead teach students to read in a way that can change...
| Author | Bill Brohaugh |
| ISBN | 1582974438 |
This is a small little non-fiction/comedy book which focuses on the etymology of words. Most of the words that the author chooses to focus on are fairly dark and gloomy, about torture or nasty things (hence the name Unfortunate English).
I liked this for what it was, but I think the Americanisms...
