Introduction to Literature
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The Broadview Pocket Guide to Writing: A Concise Handbook for Students – Fourth Edition
The Broadview Pocket Guide to Writing: A Concise Handbook for Students presents essential material from the full Broadview Guide to Writing. Included are summaries of…
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The Broadview Anthology of Expository Prose – Third Canadian Edition
The third Canadian edition of this anthology has been substantially revised and updated for a contemporary audience; a selection of classic essays from earlier eras…
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The Broadview Guide to Writing: A Handbook for Students – Sixth Edition
“Even the most useful reference guides are not always, well, shall we say, riveting. A refreshing exception is the new Broadview Guide to Writing, which…
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Writing and Workshopping Poetry: A Constructive Introduction
Most texts on creative writing emphasize either sources of inspiration or strategies for editing. The process of getting from initial inspiration to final draft isn’t…
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The Broadview Anthology of Expository Prose – Third Edition
The third edition of this anthology has been substantially revised and updated for a contemporary American audience; a selection of classic essays from earlier eras…
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Dubliners
This group of fifteen brief narratives connected by a place and a time—the city of Dublin at the beginning of the twentieth century—was written when…
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Poems: A Concise Anthology
Presenting a broad range of fully annotated selections from the long history of poetry in English, this anthology provides a rich and extensive resource for…
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The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
A man awakens to find himself transformed into a giant vermin; a performer starves himself to death as a circus attraction; a fiendish engine of…
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The Dead and Other Stories
That James Joyce’s “The Dead” forms an extraordinary conclusion to his collection Dubliners, there can be no doubt. But as many have pointed out, “The…
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The Broadview Anthology of Short Fiction – Third Edition
This selection of 45 stories, from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Shaun Tan, shows the range of short fiction in the past 150 years. This third edition…
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Understanding the Essay
This is a book on how to read the essay, one that demonstrates how reading is inextricably tied to the art of writing. It aims…
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Frankenstein – Third Edition
D.L. Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf’s edition of Frankenstein has been widely acclaimed as an outstanding edition of the novel—for the general reader and the student…
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Gulliver’s Travels
In this narrative of the gullible ship’s doctor Lemuel Gulliver and his extraordinary travels, Jonathan Swift takes readers through a series of apparently child-like fantasy…
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Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe is one of the most famous literary characters in history, and his story has spawned hundreds of retellings. Inspired by the life of…
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Roxana
Almost three hundred years after its first publication, Roxana continues to challenge readers, who, though compelled by Roxana’s story, are often baffled by her complex…
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The Broadview Anthology of Poetry – Second Edition
Among the poets new to this edition are such leading names as Americans Robert Pinsky, Louise Erdrich and Louise Glück; Britons James Fenton and Carol…
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Wuthering Heights – Ed. Newman
Over a hundred and fifty years after its initial publication, Emily Brontë’s turbulent portrayal of the Earnshaws and the Lintons, two northern English households nearly…
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The Mill on the Floss
This classic novel, first published in 1860, tells the story of Maggie Tulliver. Intelligent and headstrong but trapped by the conventions of family tradition and…
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Tess of the d’Urbervilles – Second Edition
This classic novel tells the story of how the poor rural couple John and Joan Durbeyfield become convinced that they are descended from the ancient…
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Clear Writing
Clear Writing is a compact, varied, and very readable collection of prose, designed to provide models of excellent and engaging writing for courses in rhetoric,…
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The Broadview Anthology of British Literature Volume 6: The Twentieth Century and Beyond
In all six of its volumes The Broadview Anthology of British Literature presents British literature in a truly distinctive light. Fully grounded in sound literary…
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Adam Bede
The seemingly peaceful country village of Hayslope is the setting for this ambitious first novel by one of the nineteenth century’s great novelists. With sympathy,…
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The Broadview Anthology of Drama: Concise Edition
The Broadview Anthology of Drama: Plays from the Western Theatre, concise edition is an overview of Western drama that offers chronological range and artistic variety…
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Moll Flanders
Born to a petty thief in London’s notorious Newgate prison and determined to make her way in a rapacious and materialistic society, Moll Flanders recounts…