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The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Shorter Fifth Edition

10 best books like The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Shorter Fifth Edition (Margaret Ferguson): The Good Fight: How World War II Was Won, Of Courage Undaunted: Across the Continent with Lewis & Clark, The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers Of/On Creative Nonfiction, Tuesdays with Morrie: curriculum unit, Window on the World: When We Pray God Works, Selected Poems, The Portable Romantic Poets: Blake to Poe, Louisa May Alcott: A Biography: With an Introduction to the New Edition, A More Perfect Union: The Story of Our Constitution, The Ark

The Good Fight: How World War II Was Won
AuthorStephen E. Ambrose
ISBN0689843615
Stephen E. Ambrose, one of the finest historians of our time, has written an extraordinary chronicle of World War II for young readers. From Japanese warplanes soaring over Pearl Harbor, dropping devastation from the sky, to the against-all-odds Allied victory at Midway, to the Battle of the Bulge...
Of Courage Undaunted: Across the Continent with Lewis & Clark
AuthorJames Daugherty
ISBN1893103021
First published in 1951. The author captures the magnificence of disciplined bravery, the gusto and rollicking humor of the two adventurers, and the beauty of the wilderness. Two and three-color illustrations. Recommended in Laura Berquist U.S. History amp Geography and American Literature Author:...
The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers Of/On Creative Nonfiction
AuthorRobert L. Root Jr.
ISBN0321434846
This best-selling anthology is a comprehensive and indispensable introduction to the way creative nonfiction is written today. The Fourth Genre offers the most comprehensive, teachable, and current introduction available today to the cutting-edge, evolving genre of creative nonfiction. While...
Tuesdays with Morrie: curriculum unit
AuthorBrigid O'Donoghue
ISBN1560778520
This book has been lying around my house for what seemed like ages and it was only today that I actually read it.

Honestly I was hesitant to read it mostly because it seemed like the annoying self-help book that seem to be dominating the lives of North American society. It was a self-help book and...
Window on the World: When We Pray God Works
AuthorDaphne Spraggett
ISBN1932805915
Well loved by young and old - a book that will inform and inspire the whole family, this beautifully presented, yet practical book, is the ideal accompaniment to Operation World. Stunning photographic visuals complement this A to Z of countries and people groups providing an exciting learning experience...
Selected Poems
AuthorRobert Lowell
ISBN0374514003
Selected Poems includes over 200 poems, culled from each of Robert Lowell's books of verse--Lord Weary's Castle, The Mills of the Kavanaughs, Life Studies, For the Union Dead, Near the Ocean, History, For Lizzie and Harriet, and The Dolphin. This edition, which first appeared in 1977, was revised...
The Portable Romantic Poets: Blake to Poe
AuthorW.H. Auden
ISBN0140150528
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,...
Louisa May Alcott: A Biography: With an Introduction to the New Edition
AuthorMadeleine B. Stern
ISBN1555534171
Louisa May Alcott really was an amazing woman. I knew her only from the four books about the March family (given that a fair majority of South African books are obtained from British publishers/printers we have Good Wives, rather than two parts of Little Women). I knew that she'd written some other books,...
A More Perfect Union: The Story of Our Constitution
AuthorBetsy Maestro
ISBN0688101925
With accurate historical information, this easy-to-understand book tells why and how the Constitution of the United States was created. A More Perfect Union includes a map and back matter with a table of dates and a summary of the Articles of the Constitution.

"A simple, attractive, informative...
The Ark
AuthorMargot Benary-Isbert
ISBN0152039015
This is one of my favorite books of all time! I love the rich descriptions, whether of the natural beauty of the countryside or of the little rooms the refugee family stays in after the war, and the characters are so well-portrayed that I feel I truly know them and have grown to love them so much. This is a story...
The Adventures of Marco Polo
AuthorRussell Freedman
Was Marco Polo the world's greatest explorer -- or the world's greatest liar? Newbery Medalist Russell Freedman turns his eagle eye on the enigmatic Marco Polo in his most exciting biography yet.

He claimed to have seen rocks burn, bandits command sandstorms, lions tamed with a look, and sorcerers...
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
AuthorMarcia Williams
ISBN0763631973
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....
Tales of Henry James
AuthorHenry James
ISBN0393977102
"The Author on His Craft" again reprints James s critical essay "The Art of Fiction" and related passages from his notebooks, including a new passage on "In the Cage." "Criticism" has been entirely updated and includes ten new essays by critics who during the last twenty-five years have helped to establish...
Classical Mythology: Images and Insights
AuthorStephen L. Harris
ISBN0073535672
Classical Mythology: Images and Insights grew out of the authors' many years of teaching Greek and Roman myth to undergraduates at California State University, Sacramento. Unique among textbooks on this topic, our book approaches the study of myth through complete works of Greco-Roman literature,...
Stories of the Pilgrims
AuthorMargaret Pumphrey
ISBN1599151235
Beginning with Queen Anne's visit to Scrooby inn, tells in story form of the everyday life of the Pilgrims in England and Holland, of their voyage on the Mayflower and their adventures in the New World. The Brewster children and other Pilgrim boys and girls are the center of interest. A wonderful book...
Around the World in a Hundred Years
AuthorJean Fritz
ISBN0698116380
The first chapter very briefly describes the history of exploration before Prince Henry of Portugal financed expeditions to sail down the west coast of Africa. He was angling for a trade route to Asia that Portugal could control and profit from. Progress was slow, but as the title informs you, it set...
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. C: The Restoration & the Eighteenth Century
AuthorM.H. Abrams
ISBN0393927199
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...
Evangeline and Other Poems
AuthorHenry Wadsworth Longfellow
ISBN0486282554
It has been said that a copy of Longfellow's narrative poem Evangeline could be found in every literate household in America in the nineteenth century. Certainly its poignant romance touched many hearts and stirred deepening interest in the Maine-born Harvard educator who, in his lifetime, would...
Into English: Poems, Translations, Commentaries
AuthorMartha Collins
ISBN1555977928
A unique anthology that illuminates the history and the art of translating poetry into English

Into English allows readers an extraordinary opportunity to experience the process and artistry of translating poetry. Editors Martha Collins and Kevin Prufer invited twenty-five contributors,...
Crucified
AuthorMichael Slade
ISBN0727866524
1944: the Ace of Clubs is on a top-secret solitary mission over rural Germany. Suddenly, out of nowhere, the plane is attacked by German Junkers and flight Lieutenant Fletch 'Wrath' Hannah has to give the command to bale out as the plane crashes over Nazi Germany.

Present day: a bulldozer uncovers...
Nathaniel Hawthorne's Tales
AuthorNathaniel Hawthorne
ISBN0393954269
Criticism offers key contemporary assessments by Park Benjamin, Herman Melville, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allen Poe, Henry F. Chorley, James Russell Lowell, and Henry James The collection of recent criticism displays a considerable range of approaches, including essays by Q. D. Leavis,...
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