Product Description: For courses in Literature for Composition, Writing About Literature, and Introduction to Literature. The definitive source for composition and introduction to literature courses With an emphasis on critical thinking and argument, Literature for Composition offers superior coverage of reading, writing, and arguing about literature along with an anthology organized around eight thought-provoking themes...read more

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Product Description: NOTE: Before purchasing, check with your instructor to ensure you select the correct ISBN. Several versions of Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products exist for each title, and registrations are not transferable. To register for and use Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products, you may also need a Course ID, which your instructor will provide...read more

Product Description: Featuring the smallest trim size and page count of any comparable anthology, this appealing new three-genre collection encourages students to experience the pleasures of reading literature.  Updated to reflect the new MLA Guidelines, A Little Literature: Reading, Writing, and Argument, 2009 MLA Update offers a compact and economical alternative to bulky anthologies...read more

Includes the bard's complete lyrical verse and an introduction by a noted Shakespearean scholar

Product Description: A market leader for more than 30 years, this paperback anthology continues to uphold the traditions that have made it a success— a rich blend of both classic and contemporary selections as well as Barnet’s signature “how-to” apparatus  that covers the elements of literature and the writing process...read more

Intended for students of introduction to literature and literature-based composition courses, this anthology retains its tone, compact size and editorial apparatus while adding new coverage of reading and writing about literature. This edition includes 19 new stories, 49 poems and 7 new plays consisting largely of emerging contemporary and multicultural voices, giving students and instructors a range of selections from both new and established writers.

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Product Description: Book by Barnet, Sylvan, Berman, Morton, Burto, William, Cain, William (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Presenting the complete texts of eight of the world’s greatest plays, this important volume illuminates the changing concept of tragedy from Sophocles to O’Neill.   Some of the world’s greatest dramas unfold on these pages...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This text presents a full range of drama from Ancient Greece to the present. It features an informal tone and an apparatus that provides students with reading strategies for the 27 plays anthologized in the text and discussions on how to critique them. An emphasis on writing explains how to write an analytical paper, a review of a play and a short play. This edition, supported by pedagogy such as biographical notes and introductions for each play, presents more plays from outside the traditional canon, including works by such playwrights as Gertrude Stein, Joyce Carol Oates, Luis Valdez and Harvey Fierstein. Other new features include more new one-act plays and new "Contexts", which provide comments on 11 plays written by the playwrights themselves.

Addressed by a young courtier to the mysterious Dark Lady, the object of his affection, these poems express love's devotion, jealousy, and joy

"A remarkably rich and stimulating volume...A unique blending of emotional and intellectual experience." —Los Angeles TimesHere in one volume are the complete texts of eight of the world's greatest plays, masterful examples of the comic view of life in drama. This outstanding treasury of great reading includes the bawdy humor of Machiavelli's Mandragola; the poignant, searching wit of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya; the ironic social comment of Shaw's Arms and the Man; and five other influential works, including a new translation of Molière's satire The Miser, which the editors have prepared especially for this book. Accompanied by provocative essays that define and explore the spirit, structure, and meaning of comedy, this unique volume is an ideal companion to the editors' Eight Great Tragedies (also available in a Meridian edition). (view table of contents)

Essays by eminent critics accompany the complete texts of eight important dramatic plays