"Since she burst spectacularly into view with her debut novel, White Teeth, almost two decades ago, Zadie Smith has established herself not just as one of the world's preeminent fiction writers, but also as a brilliant and singular essayist. She contributes regularly to The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books on a range of subjects, and each piece of hers is a literary event in its own right. Arranged into five sections--In the World, In the...

Six hundred titles that explore the globe are shared in reading lists organized by region, country, and age range.

This series presents some of the finest teachers in America, lecturing on some of the greatest literature ever written.

"Help all students see the power and relevance of world literature with the most inclusive and effective teaching anthology available. Exciting. Fresh. Innovative. More global than ever. These are some of the ways instructors describe the Fifth Edition of the most trusted anthology of world literature. New translations, such as Emily Wilson's Iliad and Kimi Traube's Don Quixote, an entirely new feature called Translation Lab, and newly refreshed clusters...

Examines "the greatest works of world literature, from the Iliad to Don Quixote to The Great Gatsby. Around 100 ... articles explore landmark novels, short stories, plays, and poetry that reinvented the art of writing in their time, whether Ancient Greece, post-classical Europe, or modern-day Korea"--Amazon.com.

"Help all students see the power and relevance of world literature with the most inclusive and effective teaching anthology available. Exciting. Fresh. Innovative. More global than ever. These are some of the ways instructors describe the Fifth Edition of the most trusted anthology of world literature. New translations, such as Emily Wilson's Iliad and Kimi Traube's Don Quixote, an entirely new feature called Translation Lab, and newly refreshed clusters...

"From poetry to fiction to essays, American Lit 101 leaves no page unturned! Edgar Allan Poe. Willa Cather. Henry David Thoreau. Mark Twain. The list of important American writers goes on and on. These voices played a vital role in shaping the scope of American literature, and the United States itself. But too often, textbooks reduce this storied history to dry text that would put even a tenured professor to sleep. American Lit 101 is an engaging...

'"Literary criticism," David Mason writes, "ought to entertain as well as illuminate." In these essays Mason tells stories about embodiment and change, incarnation and metamorphosis, drawing connections between art and life without confusing the two. Mason considers the many kinds of change we encounter in our lives, our desire for justice, and the ways great writers complicate that desire. He discusses the lives and works of Montaigne, Diderot, and...

Two boys' lives are changed forever when a sinister travelling carnival stops at their Illinois town.

Thomas C. Foster, acclaimed author of the phenomenal bestseller How to Read Literature Like a Professor, returns with a hugely entertaining appreciation of twenty-five works of literature that have greatly influenced the American identity. In a delightfully informative, often wry manner, Twenty-Five Books that Shaped America looks closely at important literary classics that are true national treasures. From The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin,...