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  Heart of Darkness – Ed. Peters

  Heart of Darkness is based upon Joseph Conrad’s own experience in the Congo; “it is,” as he remarks in his 1916 author’s note to Youth:…

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  The Argument Handbook

  The Argument Handbook is a classroom text for first-year composition that is designed to help students understand complex rhetorical situations and navigate the process of…

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  Moral Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction

  Moral Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction is a compact yet comprehensive book offering an explication and critique of the major theories that have shaped philosophical ethics.…

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  The Great Irish Famine: A History in Documents

  In the fall of 1845, a mysterious blight ravaged Ireland’s potato harvest, beginning a prolonged period of starvation, suffering, and emigration that reduced the Irish…

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  Castle Rackrent

  Castle Rackrent—Maria Edgeworth’s first novel, and the work for which she was and is best known—occupies a most unusual place in the history both of…

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  Queen Eleanor and Fair Rosamond

  Queen Eleanor and Fair Rosamond—among the most compelling and thought-provoking of Margaret Oliphant’s works of short fiction—tells the story of Mr. and Mrs. Lycett-Landon, “two…

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  Thomas Aquinas: Basic Philosophical Writing

  This volume contains new translations of the essential philosophical writings of Thomas Aquinas, from the Summa Theologiae and The Principles of Nature. The included texts…

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  Focus on Writing

  This first-year composition rhetoric-reader uses a Writing about Writing (WAW) approach and a conversational style to help students engage in threshold concepts and transfer what…

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  Philosophers of the Warring States: A Sourcebook in Chinese Philosophy

  Philosophers of the Warring States is an anthology of new translations of essential readings from the classic texts of early Chinese philosophy, informed by the…

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  The Works of Gwerful Mechain

  All of Gwerful Mechain’s known work is included here—as are several poems of uncertain authorship, and a selection of other works that help to fill…

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  The Invisible Man

  The Invisible Man stands out as possessing one of the most complicated heroes, or perhaps anti-heroes, in literature. A thoroughly unlikeable character, the Invisible Man…

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  The York Corpus Christi Play: Selected Pageants

  The York Corpus Christi Play as we know it consists of 47 surviving individual plays or “pageants,” 27 of which are included in this volume;…

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  Hamlet

  In the introduction to this new edition, David Bevington explores some key dilemmas and puzzles in this most famous of Shakespeare’s tragedies. What is the…

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  In a Glass Darkly

  From the predatory same-sex desire in “Carmilla” to the ghostly hallucinations in “Green Tea,” the five supernatural stories in In a Glass Darkly reflect a…

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  Quest of the Holy Grail

  The Old French Lancelot-Graal is an important but massive work, providing a place for King Arthur not only in the history of Britain but also…

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  The Piazza Tales

  Herman Melville’s The Piazza Tales is the only collection of short fiction that he published in his lifetime, and it includes his two most famous…

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  Business Ethics: The Big Picture

  Business Ethics: The Big Picture asks students to focus on the assumptions underlying the activity of business. Why does society provide special protections for businesses?…

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  Bringing Biology to Life

  Bringing Biology to Life is a guided tour of the philosophy of biology, canvassing three broad areas: the early history of biology, from Aristotle to Darwin;…

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  Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

  John Cleland’s Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure has been described as the first erotic novel in English and is perhaps the greatest example of…

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  Technology and Society: A Philosophical Guide

  Technology and Society provides an up-to-date introduction to the basic issues that have come to define the philosophy of technology: What is “technology”? Does technology…

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  Folk and Fairy Tales – Fifth Edition

  This bestselling anthology of folk and fairy tales brings together 54 stories, 9 critical articles, and 24 color illustrations from a range of historical and…

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  The World is a Text: Writing About Visual and Popular Culture

  Wherever we look today, popular culture greets us with “texts” that make implicit arguments; this book helps students to think and write critically about these…

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  Edgar Huntly

  Edgar Huntly is a compelling tale of sleepwalking, murder, and frontier violence set in rural Pennsylvania in the 1780s. His memory and wits shaken by…

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  Research Now: Contemporary Writing in the Disciplines

  Research Now: Contemporary Writing in the Disciplines is designed to help students make the transition into academic discourse. It gathers exciting current scholarship from across…