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Aesop's Fablesby AesopISBN 0192840509 (0-19-284050-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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After Shakespeare: An Anthologyby John J. GrossISBN 0192804723 (0-19-280472-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound, Oedipus the King, Antigoneby Richmond Lattimore, David GreneISBN 0226307743 (0-226-30774-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Best of John W. Campbellby John W. CampbellISBN 0283978562 (0-283-97856-2)
Hardcover, Sidgwick and Jackson
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A Capote Readerby Truman CapoteISBN 0241123720 (0-241-12372-0)
Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton
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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches (1867by Mark Twain, Shelley Fisher FishkinISBN 0195114000 (0-19-511400-0)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketchesby Mark Twain, Roy Blount, Shelley Fisher FishkinISBN 0195101316 (0-19-510131-6)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Chapters into Verse: Poetry in English Inspired by the Bible Genesis to Malachiby Laurance Wieder, Robert AtwanISBN 0195069137 (0-19-506913-7)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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Chapters Into Verse is the first comprehensive collection ever made of poems written in English inspired by the Bible. A groundbreaking anthology, it introduces readers to a distinct heritage of English poetry: the scriptural tradition. Though frequently ignored and sometimes suppressed, this tradition rivals the classical and is every bit as venerable.
Drawing a unique map of the history of English poetry, the two volumes of Chapters Into Verse survey and define the literary legacy of the Scriptures from the fourteenth century to the present. Each volume is arranged in scriptural order, and each poem is preceded by the biblical passage that inspired it. Thus readers can conveniently witness the various ways sacred text has sparked the imagination of poets throughout the ages.
In Volume I, which covers Genesis to Malachi, almost every book of the Old Testament is represented. The collection features verses both famous and unfamiliar, from Milton's Paradise Lost and Lord Byron's Hebrew Melodies to Christopher Smart's hymns and Mary Herbert's psalms. The editors have included poems by virtually all the prominent religious poets--among them, John Donne, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Edward Taylor, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. Included, too, are devotional and visionary works from a wide range of vintage poets--Robert Burns, William Blake, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Christina Rossetti, Alfred Tennyson, and Robert Browning.
Proving that the Bible is just as powerful a source of inspiration today as it was in the past, the collection assembles a mixed congregation of modern and contemporary poets, such as Marianne Moore, Delmore Schwartz, Dylan Thomas, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Countee Cullen, e.e. cummings, William Butler Yeats, Robert Lowell, Hugh McDiarmid, Laura (Riding) Jackson, Charles Reznikoff, A.D. Hope, Geoffrey Hill, Denise Levertov, Philip Levine, John Ashbery, and Derek Walcott.
Of enduring interest to readers of both scripture and literature, this anthology illuminates key passages of the Old Testament. The measured speech and inspired leaps of poetry offer a spirited alternative to the textual exegesis usually supplied by prose commentary. As such, Chapters Into Verse is truly a poets' Bible. In selection after selection, readers will encounter an astonishing variety of religious experiences, as a host of poets from many eras and many backgrounds respond to Holy Scripture spiritually, profoundly, and imaginatively. [via]More editions of Chapters into Verse: Poetry in English Inspired by the Bible Genesis to Malachi:
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Chapters into Verse: Poetry in English Inspired by the Bible Gospels to Revelationby Robert Atwan, Laurance WiederISBN 0195083059 (0-19-508305-9)
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Chapters Into Verse is the first comprehensive collection ever made of poems written in English inspired by the Bible. A groundbreaking anthology, it introduces readers to a distinct heritage of English poetry: the scriptural tradition. Though frequently ignored and sometimes suppressed, this tradition rivals the classical and is every bit as venerable.
Drawing a unique map of the history of English poetry, the two volumes of Chapters Into Verse survey and define the literary legacy of the Scriptures from the fourteenth century to the present. Each volume is arranged in scriptural order, and each poem is preceded by the biblical passage that inspired it. Thus readers can conveniently witness the various ways sacred text has sparked the imagination of poets throughout the ages.
Volume II follows the Gospels (harmonized) through Revelation. The collection features verses both famous and unfamiliar, from John Donne's meditative masterpieces to D.H. Lawrence's quirky expostulations. The editors have included poems by virtually all the prominent religious poets--among them, John Milton, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Edward Taylor, Christopher Smart, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. Included, too, are devotional and visionary works from a wide range of vintage poets--Edmund Spenser, Alexander Pope, Robert Burns, William Blake, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Christina Rossetti, Alfred Tennyson, and Robert Browning.
Proving that the Bible is just as powerful a source of inspiration today as it was in the past, the collection assembles a mixed congregation of modern and contemporary poets, such as Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, Delmore Schwartz, Dylan Thomas, Robert Frost, Countee Cullen, William Butler Yeats, John Berryman, Robert Graves, Sylvia Plath, Allen Ginsberg, Lee Murray, Amy Clampitt, and Richard Wilbur.
Of enduring interest to readers of both scripture and literature, this anthology illuminates key passages of the New Testament. The measured speech and inspired leaps of poetry offer a spirited alternative to the textual exegesis usually supplied by prose commentary. As such, Chapters Into Verse is truly a poets' Bible. In selection after selection, readers will encounter an astonishing variety of religious experiences, as a host of poets from many eras and many backgrounds respond to Holy Scripture spiritually, profoundly, and imaginatively. [via]More editions of Chapters into Verse: Poetry in English Inspired by the Bible Gospels to Revelation:
Classics of Philosophyby Louis P. PojmanISBN 0195148932 (0-19-514893-2)
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The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literatureby Victor H. MairISBN 0231074298 (0-231-07429-8)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Complete Greek Tragediesby EuripideISBN 0226307727 (0-226-30772-7)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Complete Greek Tragedies: Sophoclesby David Grene, Richmond LattimoreISBN 0226307654 (0-226-30765-4)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Greek Tragedies: Sophocles'Book summary:The Grene and Lattimore edition of the Greek tragedies has been among the most widely acclaimed and successful publications of the University of Chicago Press. On the occasion of the Centennial of the University of Chicago and its Press, we take pleasure in reissuing this complete work in a handsome four-volume slipcased edition as well as in redesigned versions of the familiar paperbacks.[via]
For the Centennial Edition two of the original translations have been replaced. In the original publication David Grene translated only one of the three Theban plays, Oedipus the King. Now he has added his own translations of the remaining two, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone, thus bringing a new unity of tone and style to this group. Grene has also revised his earlier translation of Prometheus Bound and rendered some of the former prose sections in verse. These new translations replace the originals included in the paperback volumes Sophocles I (which contains all three Theban plays), Aeschylus II, Greek Tragedies, Volume I, and Greek Tragedies, Volume III, all of which are now being published in second editions.
All other volumes contain the translations of the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides for the most part from the original versions first published in the 1940s and 1950s. These translations have been the choice of generations of teachers and students, selling in the past forty years over three million copies.More editions of The Complete Greek Tragedies: Sophocles:
Critical Terms for Literary Studyby Frank Lentricchia, Thomas McLaughlinISBN 0226472027 (0-226-47202-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Critical Terms for Literary Studyby Thomas McLaughlin, Frank LentricchiaISBN 0226472035 (0-226-47203-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Critical Terms for Literary Study'Book summary:Since its publication in 1990, Critical Terms for Literary Study has become a landmark introduction to the work of literary theorygiving tens of thousands of students an unparalleled encounter with what it means to do theory and criticism. Significantly expanded, this new edition features six new chapters that confront, in different ways, the growing understanding of literary works as cultural practices.[via]
These six new chapters are "Popular Culture," "Diversity," "Imperialism/Nationalism," "Desire," "Ethics," and "Class," by John Fiske, Louis Menand, Seamus Deane, Judith Butler, Geoffrey Galt Harpham, and Daniel T. O'Hara, respectively. Each new essay adopts the approach that has won this book such widespread acclaim: each provides a concise history of a literary term, critically explores the issues and questions the term raises, and then puts theory into practice by showing the reading strategies the term permits.
Exploring the concepts that shape the way we read, the essays combine to provide an extraordinary introduction to the work of literature and literary study, as the nation's most distinguished scholars put the tools of critical practice vividly to use.More editions of Critical Terms for Literary Study:
Criticism: Major Statementsby Charles Kaplan, William Davis AndersonISBN 0312137451 (0-312-13745-1)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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Cyberreaderby Victor J. VitanzaISBN 0205290868 (0-205-29086-8)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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Decadeby Harry Harrison, Brian Wilson AldissISBN 0312189869 (0-312-18986-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Decade, the 1940'sby Harry Harrison, Brian Wilson AldissISBN 0312189842 (0-312-18984-2)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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Decade, the 1950sby Harry Harrison, Brian Wilson AldissISBN 0312189877 (0-312-18987-7)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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Dewey Defeats Truman: A Novelby Thomas MallonISBN 0312180861 (0-312-18086-1)
Softcover, Picador
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dewey Defeats Truman: A Novel'Book summary:Despite what the title might imply, this isn't speculative fiction about what would have happened if Thomas Dewey had defeated Harry Truman in 1948. Rather, it's a gently comic novel set in Dewey's home town of Owosso, Michigan, in the period between his presidential nomination in June 1948 and his stunning defeat that November. The town's mania for its native son serves as a framework for the book's story, which centers on a love triangle among Peter Cox, a dashing, up-and-coming young Republican; Jack Riley, a disheveled Democratic union organizer; and Anne Macmurray, a fetching bookstore clerk and would-be novelist. They and other deftly drawn Owossoans move briskly through a plot that smoothly interweaves public and private events. The book is flavored with nostalgia for what the author has called an era with "a lack of sourness." [via]
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Early Modern Women's Writingby Paul SalzmanISBN 0192833464 (0-19-283346-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Elements of Argumentby Annette T. RottenbergISBN 0312013175 (0-312-01317-5)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Softcover, Bedford/st Martins - Elements of Argument: ISBN 0312133499 (0-312-13349-9)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins - Elements of Argument: ISBN 0312150326 (0-312-15032-6)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins - Elements of Argument: ISBN 0312195761 (0-312-19576-1)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins - Elements of Argument: ISBN 0312241313 (0-312-24131-3)
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English Romantic Poetry and Proseby Russell NoyesISBN 0195010078 (0-19-501007-8)
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Falling into Theory: Conflicting Views on Reading Literatureby David H. RichterISBN 0312201567 (0-312-20156-7)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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Falling into Theory: Conflicting Views on Reading Literatureby Richter, David H. RichterISBN 0312081227 (0-312-08122-7)
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The Good New Stuffby Gardner R. DozoisISBN 0312198906 (0-312-19890-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Greek Tragediesby David Grene, Richmond LattimoreISBN 0226307905 (0-226-30790-5)
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James Herriot's Cat Storiesby James Herriot, Lesley HolmesISBN 0312113420 (0-312-11342-0)
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The Jungle Bookby Disney Staff, Rudyard KiplingISBN 0307003264 (0-307-00326-4)
Hardcover, Golden Books Publishing (Canada), Incorporated
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The Jungle Booksby Rudyard Kipling, W.W. RobsonISBN 0192835033 (0-19-283503-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jungle Books'Book summary:In the jungle of Southern India the Seeonee Wolf-Pack has a new cub. He is not a wolf - he is Mowgli, a human child, but he knows nothing of the world of men. He lives and hunts with his brothers the wolves. Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther are his friends and teachers. And Shere Khan, the man-eating tiger, is his enemy. Kipling's famous story of Mowgli's adventures in the jungle has been loved by young and old for more than a hundred years. [via]
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Literature: The Evolving Canonby Sven P. BirkertsISBN 0205142222 (0-205-14222-2)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Literature: The Evolving Canon'Book summary:The new edition of this comprehensive anthology by a well-known literary critic, scholar, and teacher continues to bring a new awareness of how the world of fiction, poetry, and drama is expanding in a multicultural, global, and electronic environment. Authors represented include a high proportion of women as well as writers from non-Western cultures and from a variety of American cultural traditions. For in-depth reading, "career study" sections in fiction and poetry focus on the work of James Baldwin, Alice Munro, Gary Snyder, and Adrienne Rich, while the drama section includes two plays by Sophocles, as well as Shakespeare's Hamlet and The Tempest. In all, the text includes 46 short stories, 14 plays, and 345 poems. Literature is presented in reader-friendly steps to help students toward the fullest response to literature. Students learn how they can sharpen their experience of great literature and share it by converting their responses into writing, using discussion to help generate well-supported persuasive essays for composition.Chapter examples and questions show students the analytical tools and procedural steps for experiencing and writing about literature, while case-study models and critical essays help them compose their responses in writing. Chapters on writing about fiction, poetry, and drama help students make connections between the reading and writing process. [via]
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Literature: The Human Experienceby Richard Abcarian, Marvin KlotzISBN 0312084080 (0-312-08408-0)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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Literature: The Human Experience, Shorter Sixth Edition With Essaysby Richard Abcurian, Richard Abcarian, Marvin KlotzISBN 0312115202 (0-312-11520-2)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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Literature, the Human Experienceby Marvin Klotz, Richard AbcarianISBN 0312012683 (0-312-01268-3)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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Masterpieces of Mystery and Suspenseby Martin H. GreenbergISBN 0312022514 (0-312-02251-4)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Masterpieces of Mystery and Suspense'Book summary:This giant anthology brings together forty of the finest mystery stories ever written--many rare or unanthologized--by such towering names in the field as Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Rex Stout, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Ellery Queen, Ruth Rendell, P.D. James, Isaac Asimov, and many others. [via]
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A Medieval Miscellanyby Judith HerrinISBN 029782483X (0-297-82483-X)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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The New Oxford Book of American Verseby Richard EllmannISBN 0195020588 (0-19-502058-8)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The New Oxford Book of Irish Verseby Thomas KinsellaISBN 0192801929 (0-19-280192-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The New Oxford Book of Romantic Period Verseby Jerome J. McGannISBN 0192823299 (0-19-282329-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Oxford Book of Romantic Period Verse'Book summary:The poets whom we call the Romantics - Wordsworth, Coleridge, Burns and Blake, Byron, Shelley, and Keats - belonged to an age that saw many other kinds of poetry written and published. In this new anthology, Jerome McGann explores the full range of verse that was published in Britain between the years 1785 and 1832. Selections from all the major and minor Romantic poets are included, as well as important political and satiric verse of the period, the continuing tradition of `sentimental' verse, regional and dialect verse, and verse in translation. Organizing his material by date of first appearance, and not by author grouping, Professor McGann calls attention to the historical and cultural contexts in which the poetry is embedded. Old familiar poems are thrown into new relationships, and traditional views of the poetry of the period challenged. An important feature of this anthology is the space it devotes to women poets. Felica Dorothea Hemans was one of the most widely published and read poets of the nineteenth century, and here she takes her rightful place together with Ann Yearsley, Laeticia Borbauld, Mary Tighe, Lady Morgan, Laeticia Elizabeth Landon, and other distinguished female writers. In his introduction the editor discusses the concept of romantic writing, and the true diversity it contains. The manifesto of the romantic movement, Wordsworth's Preface to the Lyrical Ballads , is here printed in an appendix. This book is intended for lovers of English Romantic Verse; students of Romantic literature, undergraduate level and up. [via]
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Our Timesby David AtwanISBN 031202018X (0-312-02018-X)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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Our Times: Readings from Recent Periodicalsby Robert AtwanISBN 031214931X (0-312-14931-X)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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The Oxford Book of Short Poemsby James Michie, P. J. KavanaghISBN 0192804103 (0-19-280410-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Book of Short Poems'Book summary:Memorable, witty, bawdy, profound--the short poem observes no limits except those of length. They can range from subjects as diverse as a child's first words, a woman's feet, or human destiny. The verses within this collection vary greatly in theme, style, and tone, but in each case, brevity reveals the poets at their best, both as individual artists and as exemplars of their times.
The short poem is often overlooked in verse collections, where poets tend to be represented by their longer, more sustained work. Defining "short" as any poem of under fourteen lines, P. J. Kavanagh and James Michie have chosen those poems, which they consider to be the best in the English language, from medieval times to the present day. Their selection extends from Chaucer to Philip Larkin, from Shakespeare to Emily Bronte, from Blake to Edith Sitwell, and from Yeats to Emily Dickinson, demonstrating the gradual changes in style, subject-matter, and tone from one generation of poets to the next. [via]More editions of The Oxford Book of Short Poems:
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Oxford Book of Children's Verseby Peter Opie, Iona Archibald OpieISBN 0192801880 (0-19-280188-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oxford Book of Children's Verse'Book summary:This anthology brings together the outstanding verse written for children over a period of five hundred years.
It contains more than 300 poems written by 123 authors, and includes the rhymed precepts of medieval times, the admonitory verse of Elizabethan Puritans, the inspirational verse of Blake and Christopher Smart, the nonsense verses of Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll, the nursery verses of Robert Louis Stevenson and A. A. Milne, and the poetical imaginings of Christina Rossetti, Eleanor Farjeon, and Walter de la Mare. It has truly been called "A companion to the mature of all ages, no matter how young." [via]More editions of Oxford Book of Children's Verse:
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The Oxford Book of Humorous Proseby Frank MuirISBN 0192803794 (0-19-280379-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose'Book summary:Focusing primarily on the 19th and 20th century, but with material dating back to Columbus, this volume is packed with an amazing range of comic material is--from the gentle, charming comedy of manners, to biting satire, to outrageous parody.
There are excerpts from the novels of Jane Austen, P.G. Wodehouse and Mark Twain, complete short stories by O. Henry and Frank O'Connor, classic tall tales from Australia, passages from Groucho Marx's correspondence with Warner Brothers, a selection of Samuel Johnson's comic definitions, plus a sprinkling of egregious puns and witty sayings. Muir has gathered work from over two hundred writers and from every English-speaking country. Virtually all of your favorites are here: Jonathan Swift, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Laurence Sterne, Anita Loos, Dorothy Parker, S.J. Perelman, Damon Runyon, Fran Lebowitz, Joseph Heller, Evelyn Waugh, Garrison Keilor, Erma Bombeck, Tom Wolfe, and countless others. In addition, there are comic pieces from writers you wouldn't expect to find--such as Thomas Hardy or Lawrence Durrell--and many writers you may not have discovered yet.
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The Oxford Book of Irish Short Storiesby William TrevorISBN 0192801937 (0-19-280193-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Oxford Book of Romantic Period Verseby Jerome J. McGannISBN 0198604327 (0-19-860432-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Poetry in English: An Anthologyby M.L. RosenthalISBN 0195205391 (0-19-520539-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Poetry in English: An Anthology'Book summary:This authoritative, handsomely designed anthology of poetry from the Anglo-Saxon to the contemporary stresses major figures without neglecting minor ones of quality. Meant for survey and genre courses (and for all interested readers), it offers responsible scholarly texts for study in themselves and for seeing both the continuities and the changes in dominant modes over the centuries. The larger aim is to enhance the appreciation of poetic art generally.
Selection is based on excellence, along with certain necessary considerations: how well poems reflect their periods, show the development of a form or genre, illustrate a poet's range, and speak to modern sensibilities. Whenever feasible, complete poems are used.
In addition to headnotes, annotations, and known dates of composition and publication, Poetry in English includes M.L. Rosenthal's introduction, Sally M. Gall's comprehensive essay on versification, and an author/title/first line index. It is the ideal text for students and teachers alike. [via]More editions of Poetry in English: An Anthology:
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Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Studyby Paula S. RothenbergISBN 0312096526 (0-312-09652-6)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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Rereading America: Cultural Contexts for Critical Thinking and Writingby Gary Colombo, Robert Cullen, Bonnie LisleISBN 0312101392 (0-312-10139-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rereading America: Cultural Contexts for Critical Thinking and Writing'Book summary:[via]Rereading America has remained the most widely adopted book of its kind because of its unique approach to the issue of cultural diversity. Unlike other multicultural composition readers that settle for representing the plurality of American voices and cultures, Rereading America encourages students to grapple with the real differences in perspectives that arise in our complex society. With extensive editorial apparatus that puts readings from the mainstream into conversation with readings from the margins, Rereading America provokes students to explore the foundations and contradictions of our dominant cultural myths.More editions of Rereading America: Cultural Contexts for Critical Thinking and Writing:
Rereading America: Cultural Contexts for Critical Thinking and Writingby Robert Cullen, Bonnie Lisle, Gary ColomboISBN 0312008465 (0-312-00846-5)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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Signs of Life in the USAby Solomon MassikISBN 031209020X (0-312-09020-X)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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Signs of Life in the U.S.A.: Readings on Popular Culture for Writersby Jack Solomon, Sonia MaasikISBN 0312195826 (0-312-19582-6)
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Signs of Life in the U.S.A.: Readings on Popular Culture for Writersby Sonia Maasik, J. Fisher SolomonISBN 0312136315 (0-312-13631-5)
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Sophocles I: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigoneby Sophocles, David Greene, Richard LattimoreISBN 0226307921 (0-226-30792-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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"The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affectedly poetic; their idiom is contemporary....They have life and speed and suppleness of phrase."Times Education Supplement
"These translations belong to our time. A keen poetic sensibility repeatedly quickens them; and without this inner fire the most academically flawless rendering is dead."Warren D. Anderson, American Oxonian
"The critical commentaries and the versions themselves...are fresh, unpretentious, above all, functional."Commonweal
"Grene is one of the great translators."Conor Cruise O'Brien, London Sunday Times
"Richmond Lattimore is that rara avis in our age, the classical scholar who is at the same time an accomplished poet."Dudley Fitts, New York Times Book ReviewMore editions of Sophocles I: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone:
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Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader in Prose and Verseby Henry SweetISBN 019811169X (0-19-811169-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Tales of Time and Spaceby Harvey Kidder, Ross Robert OlneyISBN 0307216284 (0-307-21628-4)
Hardcover, Golden Press
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Victorian Prose and Poetryby Lionel Trilling, Harold BloomISBN 0195016165 (0-19-501616-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The World of Mythby David Adams LeemingISBN 0195074750 (0-19-507475-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The World of Myth'Book summary:Hercules, Zeus, Thor, Gilgamesh--these are the figures that leap to mind when we think of myth. But to David Leeming, myths are more than stories of deities and fantastic beings from non-Christian cultures. Myth is at once the most particular and the most universal feature of civilization, representing common concerns that each society voices in its own idiom. Whether an Egyptian story of creation or the big-bang theory of modern physics, myth is metaphor, mirroring our deepest sense of ourselves in relation to existence itself.
Now, in The World of Myth, Leeming provides a sweeping anthology of myths, ranging from ancient Egypt and Greece to the Polynesian islands and modern science. We read stories of great floods from the ancient Babylonians, Hebrews, Chinese, and Mayans; tales of apocalypse from India, the Norse, Christianity, and modern science; myths of the mother goddess from Native American Hopi culture and James Lovelock's Gaia. Leeming has culled myths from Aztec, Greek, African, Australian Aboriginal, Japanese, Moslem, Hittite, Celtic, Chinese, and Persian cultures, offering one of the most wide-ranging collections of what he calls the collective dreams of humanity.
More important, he has organized these myths according to a number of themes, comparing and contrasting how various societies have addressed similar concerns, or have told similar stories. In the section on dying gods, for example, both Odin and Jesus sacrifice themselves to renew the world, each dying on a tree. Such traditions, he proposes, may have their roots in societies of the distant past, which would ritually sacrifice their kings to renew the tribe.
In The World of Myth, David Leeming takes us on a journey "not through a maze of falsehood but through a marvellous world of metaphor," metaphor for "the story of the relationship between the known and the unknown, both around us and within us." Fantastic, tragic, bizarre, sometimes funny, the myths he presents speak of the most fundamental human experience, a part of what Joseph Campbell called "the wonderful song of the soul's high adventure." [via]More editions of The World of Myth:
World of Myth: An Anthologyby David Adams LeemingISBN 0195056019 (0-19-505601-9)
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Writing Arguments: A Rhetoric With Readingsby John C. Bean, John D. RamageISBN 0205269176 (0-205-26917-6)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Writing Arguments: A Rhetoric With Readings Briefby John C. Bean, John D. RamageISBN 0205269184 (0-205-26918-4)
Softcover, Allyn & Bacon
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Writing Arguments: A Rhetoric With Readings/Concise Editionby John C. Bean, John D. Ramage, June JohnsonISBN 0205317472 (0-205-31747-2)
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Writing Arguments: A Rhetoric With Readings/Value Packageby John C. Bean, John D. RamageISBN 0205198619 (0-205-19861-9)
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