In Modern American Memoirs, two very discerning writers and readers have selected samples from 35 of the finest memoirs written in this century, including contributions by such diverse writers as Margaret Mead, Malcolm X, Maxine Hong Kingston, Loren Eisely, and Zora Neale Hurston. Chosen for...  more

In Modern American Memoirs, two very discerning writers and readers have selected samples from 35 of the finest memoirs written in this century, including contributions by such diverse writers as Margaret Mead, Malcolm X, Maxine Hong Kingston, Loren Eisely, and Zora Neale Hurston. Chosen for their value as excellent examples of the art of biography as well as for their superb writing, the excerpts present a broad range of American life, and offer vivid insight into the real-life events that shaped their authors. Here, readers can learn about the time when Harry Crews, playing as a boy, fell into a vat of boiling water with a dead hog; Chris Offutt joined the circus and watched a tattooed woman swallow a fluorescent light; and Frank Conroy practiced yo-yo tricks.

This inspiring memoir, first published in 1850, recounts the struggles a distinguished African-American abolitionist and champion of women’s rights. Sojourner Truth tells of her life in slavery, her self-liberation, and her travels across America in pursuit of racial and sexual equality....  more

This inspiring memoir, first published in 1850, recounts the struggles a distinguished African-American abolitionist and champion of women’s rights. Sojourner Truth tells of her life in slavery, her self-liberation, and her travels across America in pursuit of racial and sexual equality. Essential reading for students of American history.

A fresh approach to the study of Romantic Literature edited by scholars in the field. Generous coverage of fiction, drama, and poetry alike. Major prose works are included in their entirety, together with a wealth of poetry and drama, from Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of...  more

A fresh approach to the study of Romantic Literature edited by scholars in the field. Generous coverage of fiction, drama, and poetry alike. Major prose works are included in their entirety, together with a wealth of poetry and drama, from Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience to Byron’s Manfred ?and beyond. Extensive selections from a wide range of writers include underrepresented female writers like Mary Wollstonecraft, Dorothy Wordsworth, and Mary Robinson. “Perspectives” sections shed light on the period as a whole. Examples include a “Perspectives” section on “The Wollstonecraft Controversy and the Rights of Women” and on “Popular Prose and the Problems of Authorship” For anyone interested in a volume on Romantic Literature edited by venerable scholars.

Choice collection of short fiction by one of the masters of the genre. In addition to the title story, this volume includes "The Birthmark," "Rappaccini’s Daughter," "Roger Malvin’s Burial," "The Artist of the Beautiful," "Dr....  more

Choice collection of short fiction by one of the masters of the genre. In addition to the title story, this volume includes "The Birthmark," "Rappaccini’s Daughter," "Roger Malvin’s Burial," "The Artist of the Beautiful," "Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment" and "My Kinsman, Major Molineux." Reprinted from standard texts, tales deal with scientific experiment, witchcraft, revenge, the power of guilt, more. Dr. Heidegger's experiment -- The birthmark -- Young Goodman Brown -- Rappaccini's daughter -- Roger Malvin's burial -- The artist of the beautiful -- My kinsman, Major Molineux

41 of Poe’s most memorable poems—among them "The Bells," "Ulalume," "Israfel," "To Helen," "The Conqueror Worm," "Eldorado" and "Annabel Lee"—reveal the extraordinary spectrum of Poe’s personality and his virtuoso command of poetic language, rhythms and figures of speech....  more

41 of Poe’s most memorable poems—among them "The Bells," "Ulalume," "Israfel," "To Helen," "The Conqueror Worm," "Eldorado" and "Annabel Lee"—reveal the extraordinary spectrum of Poe’s personality and his virtuoso command of poetic language, rhythms and figures of speech. Alphabetic lists of titles and first lines.

The story of Victor Frankenstein's monstrous creation and the havoc it caused has enthralled generations of readers and inspired countless writers of horror and suspense. With the author's own 1831 introduction.

Douglass' graphic depictions of slavery, harrowing escape to freedom, and life as a newspaper editor, eloquent orator, and impassioned abolitionist.

Charlotte Bront? characterized the eponymous heroine of her 1847 novel as being "as poor and plain as myself." Presenting a heroine with neither great beauty nor entrancing charm was an unprecendented maneuver, but Bront?'s instincts proved correct, for readers of her era and ever after have...  more

Charlotte Bront? characterized the eponymous heroine of her 1847 novel as being "as poor and plain as myself." Presenting a heroine with neither great beauty nor entrancing charm was an unprecendented maneuver, but Bront?'s instincts proved correct, for readers of her era and ever after have taken Jane Eyre into their hearts. The author drew upon her own experience to depict Jane's struggles at Lowood, an oppressive boarding school, and her troubled career as a governess. Unlike Jane, Bront? had the advantage of a warm family circle that shared and encouraged her literary pursuits. She found immediate success with this saga of an orphan girl forced to make her way alone in the world, from Lowood School to Thornfield, the estate of the majestically moody Mr. Rochester, and beyond. Unabridged republication of a standard edition.

Angus: My mixed-breed cat, half domestic tabby, half Scottish wildcat. The size of a small Labrador, only mad. Thongs: Stupid underwear. What's the point of them, anyway? They just go up your bum, as far as I can tell. Full-Frontal Snogging: Kissing with all the trimmings,...  more

Angus: My mixed-breed cat, half domestic tabby, half Scottish wildcat. The size of a small Labrador, only mad. Thongs: Stupid underwear. What's the point of them, anyway? They just go up your bum, as far as I can tell. Full-Frontal Snogging: Kissing with all the trimmings, lip to lip, open mouth, tongues ... everything. Her dad's got the mentality of a Teletubby (only not so developed). Her cat, Angus, is trying to eat the poodle next door. And her best friend thinks she looks like an alien -- just because she accidentally shaved off her eyebrows. Ergghhhlack. Still, add a little boy-stalking, teacher-baiting, and full-frontal snogging with a Sex God, and Georgia's year just might turn out to be the most fabbitty fab fab ever!

In Crossing the Tracks, fifteen-year-old Iris Baldwin discovers what makes a true family.

In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to...  more

In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to death on live TV. Sixteen year old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister's place in the Games. But Katniss has been close to death before- and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life against love.

Ged was the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, but once he was called Sparrowhawk, a reckless youth, hungry for power and knowledge, who tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed...  more

Ged was the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, but once he was called Sparrowhawk, a reckless youth, hungry for power and knowledge, who tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient dragon, and crossed death's threshold to restore the balance.

Leanora Sutter. Esther Hirsh. Merlin Van Tornhout. Johnny Reeves . . .These characters are among the unforgettable cast inhabiting a small Vermont town in 1924. A town that turns against its own when the Ku Klux Klan moves in. No one is safe, especially the two youngest, twelve-year-old...  more

Leanora Sutter. Esther Hirsh. Merlin Van Tornhout. Johnny Reeves . . .These characters are among the unforgettable cast inhabiting a small Vermont town in 1924. A town that turns against its own when the Ku Klux Klan moves in. No one is safe, especially the two youngest, twelve-year-old Leanora, an African-American girl, and six-year-old Esther, who is Jewish.In this story of a community on the brink of disaster, told through the haunting and impassioned voices of its inhabitants, Newbery Award winner Karen Hesse takes readers into the hearts and minds of those who bear witness.

A tour-de-force by rising indy comics star Gene Yang, American Born Chinese tells the story of three apparently unrelated characters: Jin Wang, who moves to a new neighborhood with his family only to discover that he's the only Chinese-American student at his new school; the powerful Monkey...  more

A tour-de-force by rising indy comics star Gene Yang, American Born Chinese tells the story of three apparently unrelated characters: Jin Wang, who moves to a new neighborhood with his family only to discover that he's the only Chinese-American student at his new school; the powerful Monkey King, subject of one of the oldest and greatest Chinese fables; and Chin-Kee, a personification of the ultimate negative Chinese stereotype, who is ruining his cousin Danny's life with his yearly visits. Their lives and stories come together with an unexpected twist in this action-packed modern fable.

"About three things I was absolutely positive. First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was a part of him--and I didn't know how dominant that part might be--that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him." "I'D...  more

"About three things I was absolutely positive. First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was a part of him--and I didn't know how dominant that part might be--that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him." "I'D NEVER GIVEN MUCH THOUGHT TO HOW I WOULD DIE. I'd had reason enough in the last few months--but even if I had, I would not have imagined it like this.... Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of something else, someone I loved. Noble, even. That ought to count for something...." When Isabella Swan moves to the gloomy town of Forks and meets the mysterious, alluring Edward Cullen, her life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. With his porcelain skin, golden eyes, mesmerizing voice, and supernatural gifts, Edward is both irresistible and impenetrable. Up until now, he has managed to keep his true identity hidden, but Bella is determined to uncover his dark secret. What Bella doesn't realize is the closer she gets to him, the more she is putting herself and those around her at risk. And, it might be too late to turn back....

She wanted to be like other girls--not an orphan. The matron at the orphanage is always telling Judy Abbott that her imagination will get her into trouble. But nothing she ever imagined is as surprising as what really happens to her. A wealthy trustee of the orphanage offers to send Judy...  more

She wanted to be like other girls--not an orphan. The matron at the orphanage is always telling Judy Abbott that her imagination will get her into trouble. But nothing she ever imagined is as surprising as what really happens to her. A wealthy trustee of the orphanage offers to send Judy to college--but he doesn't want her to know who he is. All she ever sees of him is his shadow--all arms and legs like a daddy-long-legs. Judy calls her generous benefactor Daddy-Long-Legs, but with her imagination it can't be long before she finds out his real name.

Sixteen-year-old Beauty has never liked her nickname. Thin, awkward, and undersized, with big hands and huge feet, she has always thought of herself as the plainest girl in her family - certainly not nearly as lovely as her elder sisters, Hope and Grace. But what she lacks in looks, she makes up...  more

Sixteen-year-old Beauty has never liked her nickname. Thin, awkward, and undersized, with big hands and huge feet, she has always thought of herself as the plainest girl in her family - certainly not nearly as lovely as her elder sisters, Hope and Grace. But what she lacks in looks, she makes up for in courage. When her father comes home one day with the strange tale of an enchanted castle in the wood and the terrible promise he has made to the Beast who lives there, Beauty knows what she must do. She must go to the castle and tame the Beast - if such a thing is possible... Here is the unusual love story of a most unlikely couple: Beauty... and the Beast. 1966-1988 Best of the Best Books for Young Adults (ALA) 1979 Fanfare Honor List (The Horn Book) 1979 Books for the Teen Age (NY Public Library) 2000 List of Popular Paperbacks for YA

The most-trusted literature anthology of all time, now in its 50th year.The Ninth Edition offers more complete works and more teachable groupings than ever before, the apparatus you trust, and a new, free Supplemental Ebook with more than 1,000 additional texts. Read by more than 8 million...  more

The most-trusted literature anthology of all time, now in its 50th year.The Ninth Edition offers more complete works and more teachable groupings than ever before, the apparatus you trust, and a new, free Supplemental Ebook with more than 1,000 additional texts. Read by more than 8 million students, The Norton Anthology of English Literature sets the standard and remains an unmatched value.

This anthology celebrates the wit and imaginative creativity of the Elizabethan poets with a generous selection of their graceful and sophisticated verse. Highlights include sonnets from Shakespeare, Sidney, and Spenser; popular poems by Donne ("Go, and catch a falling star"), Jonson ("Drink to...  more

This anthology celebrates the wit and imaginative creativity of the Elizabethan poets with a generous selection of their graceful and sophisticated verse. Highlights include sonnets from Shakespeare, Sidney, and Spenser; popular poems by Donne ("Go, and catch a falling star"), Jonson ("Drink to me only with thine eyes"), Marlowe ("The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"); more.

This book gathers all seven of the dramas of Christopher Marlowe, in which the lure of dark forces drives the shifting balances between weak and strong, sacred and profane. Supported by textual notes and featuring modern punctuation and spelling, they include: - Dido, Queen of Carthage -...  more

This book gathers all seven of the dramas of Christopher Marlowe, in which the lure of dark forces drives the shifting balances between weak and strong, sacred and profane. Supported by textual notes and featuring modern punctuation and spelling, they include: - Dido, Queen of Carthage - Tamburlaine the Great, Part One - Tamburlaine the Great, Part Two - The Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward the Second - The Massacre at Paris With a critical introduction, a chronology of Marlowe’s life, extensive commentary, and a glossary, this will remain the authoritative anthology of Marlowe’s plays for years to come.

A major new translation of Thomas More's popular work of philosophical fiction In his most famous and controversial book, Utopia, Thomas More imagines a perfect island nation where thousands live in peace and harmony, men and women are both educated, and all property is communal. Through...  more

A major new translation of Thomas More's popular work of philosophical fiction In his most famous and controversial book, Utopia, Thomas More imagines a perfect island nation where thousands live in peace and harmony, men and women are both educated, and all property is communal. Through dialogue and correspondence between the protagonist Raphael Hythloday and his friends and contemporaries, More explores the theories behind war, political disagreements, social quarrels, and wealth distribution and imagines the day-to-day lives of those citizens enjoying freedom from fear, oppression, violence, and suffering. Originally written in Latin, this vision of an ideal world is also a scathing satire of Europe in the sixteenth century and has been hugely influential since publication, shaping utopian fiction even today

Featuring 19 of the finest works from the most distinguished writers in the American short-story tradition, this compilation includes: "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, "Bartleby" by Herman Melville, "The Luck of Roaring Camp" by Bret Harte, "To Build a...  more

Featuring 19 of the finest works from the most distinguished writers in the American short-story tradition, this compilation includes: "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, "Bartleby" by Herman Melville, "The Luck of Roaring Camp" by Bret Harte, "To Build a Fire" by Jack London, "The Real Thing" by Henry James, "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Killers" by Ernest Hemingway, plus stories by Hawthorne, Twain, Cather, Bierce, Dreiser, and others. Nathaniel Hawthorne: Young Goodman Brown (1835) -- Edgar Allan Poe: The tell-tale heart (1843) -- Herman Melville: Bartleby (1856) -- Bret Harte: The luck of Roaring Camp (1870) -- Stephen Crane: The bride comes to Yellow Sky (1878) -- Mark Twain: The private history of a campaign that failed (1885) -- Sarah Orne Jewett: A white heron (1886) -- Charles Waddell Chesnutt: The goophered grapevine (1887) -- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: A New England nun (1891) -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The yellow wallpaper (1892) -- Henry James: The real thing (1893) -- Kate Chopin: A pair of silk stockings (1897) -- Jack London: To build a fire (1908) -- Ambrose Bierce: An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1909) -- Theodore Dreiser: The lost phoebe (1916) -- Willa Cather: Paul's case (1920) -- F. Scott Fitzgerald: Bernice bobs her hair (1920) -- Sherwood Anderson: The egg (1921) -- Ernest Hemingway: The killers (1927)

Texts and Contexts: Writing about Literature presents a user-friendly introduction to contemporary critical theories?from new criticism to cultural studies?as part of the practice of analyzing and writing about literature. Some of the changes to the new edition include enhanced coverage of...  more

Texts and Contexts: Writing about Literature presents a user-friendly introduction to contemporary critical theories?from new criticism to cultural studies?as part of the practice of analyzing and writing about literature. Some of the changes to the new edition include enhanced coverage of film and other genres reflecting the growing interest in film as an academic field and engaging students. New sample texts and projects, all classroom-tested, appear at the end of every theory chapter, along with guiding questions to offer more practice for students in applying critical theory to literary texts. There is more on current approaches to literature, including the relationship between rhetoric and reader-response criticism, Marxism, postcolonialism, queer theory, feminist theory, and African-American studies.

This outstanding anthology of short verse offers an impressive sampling of more than 150 succinct masterpieces spanning over 400 years of English and American literary history. Memorable compositions include Donne’s "Death Be Not Proud," Blake’s "The Tyger,"...  more

This outstanding anthology of short verse offers an impressive sampling of more than 150 succinct masterpieces spanning over 400 years of English and American literary history. Memorable compositions include Donne’s "Death Be Not Proud," Blake’s "The Tyger," Wordsworth’s "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," Byron’s "She Walks in Beauty," Shelley’s "Ozymandias," as well as works by Tennyson, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats, Frost, and many others. Even such is time / Sir Walter Ralegh -- Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? ; When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes ; let me not to the marriage of true minds / William Shakespeare -- Death, be not proud / John Donne -- Drink to me only with thine eyes / Ben Johnson -- A dirge / John Webster -- To the virgins, to make much of time ; Upon Julia's clothes / Robert Herrick -- On the world / Francis Quarles -- The unfading beauty / Thomas Carew -- On his blindness / John Milton -- Why so pale and wan, fond lover / Sir John Suckling -- To my dear and loving husband / Anne Bradstreet -- To Lucasta, going to the wars / Richard Lovelace -- To a lady asking him how long he would love her / Sir George Etherege -- A reasonable affliction / Matthew Prior -- Ode on solitude / Alexander Pope -- Song / John Gay -- When lovely woman stoops to folly / Oliver Goldsmith -- A marriage ring / George Crabbe -- The tiger ; Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau ; The sick rose / William Blake -- A red, red rose / Robert Burns -- I wandered lonely as a cloud ; My heart leaps up ; She dwelt among the untrodden ways / William Wordsworth -- Rose Aylmer ; Twenty years hence / Walter Savage Landor -- Believe me, if all those endearing young charms / Thomas Moore -- Abou Ben Adhem ; Jenny kiss'd me / Leigh Hunt -- Beneath the cypress shade / Thomas Love Peacock -- So we'll go no more a-roving ; She walks in beauty / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- When I have fears / John Keats -- Song ; Early death / Hartley Coleridge -- The death-bed / Thomas Hood -- Days ; Character / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- How do I love thee? Let me count the ways / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- The arrow and the song ; There was a little girl / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- To one in paradise / Edgar Allan Poe -- The splendor falls ; Crossing the bar ; The eagle ; Flower in the crannied wall / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- The three arrows / Edward FitzGerald -- Meeting at night ; Parting at morning ; Pippa's song / Robert Browning -- I was born upon thy bank, river ; My life has been the poem / Henry David Thoreau -- The old stoic / Emily Brontë -- Say not the struggle nought availeth / Arthur Hugh Clough -- A noiseless patient spider ; I hear America singing / Walt Whitman -- The kiss ; Magna est veritas / Coventry Patmore -- Lucifer in starlight / George Meredith -- I heard a fly buzz when I died ; The soul selects her own society ; My life closed twice before its close ; I never saw a moor / Emily Dickinson -- Remember ; Up-hill / Christina Rossetti -- How doth the little crocodile / Lewis Carroll -- Memory / Thomas Bailey Aldrich -- Hap ; In time of "The breaking of nations" ; I look into my glass / Thomas Hardy -- Pied beauty ; God's grandeur ; No worst, there is none / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Evolution ; The shadow ; The mid-day moon / John Banister Tabb -- The new colossus / Emma Lazarus -- Invictus / William Ernest Henley -- Requiem / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The night has a thousand eyes / Francis William Bourdillon -- Solitude ; The winds of fate / Ella Wheeler Wilcox -- E tenebris ; Symphony in yellow / Oscar Wilde -- Song / John Davidson -- When I was one-and-twenty ; Into my heart an air that kills ; With rue my heart is laden ; Loveliest of trees / A.E. Housman -- Leda and the swan ; The lake isle of Innisfree ; Down by the salley gardens ; When you are old / William Butler Yeats -- The purple cow ; Cinque ans après / Gelett Burgess -- Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno cynarae ; Envoy / Ernest Dowson -- Richard Cory ; Eros turannos / E.A. Robinson -- I saw a man pursuing the horizon ; In the desert ; A learned man came to me once / Stephen Crane -- Life ; We wear the mask ; Silence / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Solitaire / Amy Lowell -- Stopping by woods on a snowy evening ; Fire and ice ; The road not taken ; Acquainted with the night / Robert Frost -- Antigonish / Hughes Mearns -- November night ; The warning / Adelaide Crapsey -- Sea fever / John Masefield -- Fog ; Grass / Carl Sandburg -- The emperor of ice-cream ; Disillusionment of ten o'clock / Wallace Stevens -- The red wheelbarrow / William Carlos Williams -- The kiss ; I shall not care / Sara Teasdale -- In a station of the Metro ; L'Art, 1910 / Ezra Pound -- Trees / Joyce Kilmer -- The soldier / Rupert Brooke -- Harlem shadows / Claude McKay -- Morning at the window ; The Boston Evening Transcript / T.S. Eliot -- The end of the world / Archibald MacLeish -- First fig ; Euclid alone has looked on beauty bare / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Anthem for doomed youth / Wilfred Owen -- The Negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes -- Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas