Carl R Proffer
The Golden Age of Russian poetry (1820-41) was the Romantic period not only in verse, but also in prose. Since they were without native traditions of fiction, Russian writers of the time were clearly inspired by Western authors like Sir Walter Scott and... (read more)
Douglas Angus
Included in this brilliant collection are twenty-five stories of twentieth-century Europe by some of the greatest writers of the era. Unique in their range of insights, these pieces reflect the vast upheavals of their time, etching o fascinating and very... (read more)
Stephen Greenblatt
Read by millions of students over seven editions, The Norton Anthology of English Literatureremains the most trusted undergraduate survey of English literature available and one of the most successful college texts ever published. Firmly grounded by the... (read more)
John J Gross
"Comic verse," writes editor John Gross, "is verse that is designed to amuse--and perhaps that is as far as any attempt at a definition ought to go." In The Oxford Book of Comic Verse, Gross has combed the annals of literature in English from the middle... (read more)
H Nigel Thomas
Fiction. African American Studies. These stories of triumph and despair present a gallery of characters, Caribbean immigrants struggling against the odds, as they make their way through the maze of urban life. Set in Montreal, LIVES breaks the... (read more)
John Updike and Katrina Kenison
Since its debut volume 85 years ago, publication of The Best American Short
Stories has been a regular literary event, providing an annual showcase
for America's greatest established writers and consistently discovering
and introducing the best... (read more)
Gerald Early
This exciting collection introduces the first-ever annual anthology of writing by African Americans. Here are remarkable essays on a variety of subjects informed bybut not necessarily aboutthe experience of blackness, as seen through the eyes of some of... (read more)
Niels Teunis
This pioneering collection of ten ethnographically rich essays signals the emergence of a new paradigm of social analysis committed to understanding and analyzing social oppression in the context of sexuality and gender. The contributors, an... (read more)
