Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing (8th Edition) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Edgar V. Roberts, Henry E. Jacobs
Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: 8
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Pages: 2240
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Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.3 x 2.6
ISBN: 0131732781
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.0668
EAN: 9780131732780
ASIN: 0131732781
Publication Date: March 11, 2006
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Excellent Anthology of Literature March 20, 2008
It's an excellent anthology. Here are some of the writers, playwrights, authors, and others who have contributed to this text.
Aesop; Matthew Arnold;
Anne Bradstreet; Aphra Behn; William Blake; Robert Burns; Lord Byron; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Robert Browning; Robert Bridges;
Thomas Campion; Richard Crashaw; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Lewis Carroll;
Michael Drayton; John Donne; John Dryden; Emily Dickinson;
Anne Finch;
Thomas Gray;
Robert Herrick; George Herbert; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Frances E.W. Harper; Thomas Hardy;
Henrik Ibsen;
Ben Jonson;
Henry King; John Keats;
Richard Lovelace;
Christopher Marlowe; John Milton; Andrew Marvell; Moliere;
Thomas Nashe;
Katherine Phillips; Alexander Pope; Edgar Allan Poe;
Sir Walter Raleigh; Christina Rossetti;
Sophocles; Saint Luke; Edmund Spenser; Sir Philip Sidney; William Shakespeare; Jonathan Swift; Percy Shelley;
Edward Taylor; Lord Alfred Tennyson; Mark Twain;
Sir Thomas Wyatt; Edmyund Waller; Phyllis Wheatley; William Wordsworth; Cornelius Whur; Walt Whitman;
For a textbook it's a really good book January 22, 2008
Obviously I purchased this for class, but unlike some textbooks which can be boring this one was really great. It's more of a collection of plays, stories, poems, etc. than a "literature is blah, blah, blah". It's also very informative, some of the english books I've had for other classes have been really boring or they've cut some of the authors work short. This one gives you so much that I'd really call it more of a book of collected works than a textbook.
It's also broken into sections like Fiction, Poems, which makes it easy to navigate through and the sections are further broken into chapters such as theme, setting, etc. with works that correspond, so you really get a good example of what each chapter is talking about.
One negative though would be the size, it's really big but with all that's included I guess it only makes sense that it would be that massive.
All in all it was a great purchase plus I think I bought it from someone on Amazon for a $1 (for a hardcover!) so it was also a good buy. My suggestion would be that more English professosrs should use it or for anyone who just wants to be informed literally, this is a really good book.
 Pretty good text with online adjunct videos for free October 30, 2005
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Used for my college English II class, this text presents many literary ideas which could be useful for fully learning the many apsects of english.
There is an adjunct video course also usually taught in conjunction with this text, and its available for free on demand online at learner dot org.
I've kept this text for the many stories and usefull English info. Worth having.
Great teaching book September 20, 1999
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book has a companion video series called Literary Visions. That series alsoo includes a study guide. I would highly recommend it.
Is there a teacher's manual with this book? March 18, 1999
2 out of 15 found this review helpful
This is not a review. I am searching for a teacher's manual for this book. Is there one?
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