This edition, based on the 1813 first-edition text has been thoroughly annotated. It contains biographical portraits of Austen by her family and biographers, letters and samples of her early writing and 18 critical assessments of the novel.
A survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, this edition represents essential works in genres, ranging from Seamus Heaney's translation of "Beowulf" to global twentieth-century classics. It contains concise glosses and annotations, period introductions, biographical headnotes, timelines and bibliographies.
Focusing on six types of tales in variants from around the world, essays explore the genre, cultural implications, and critical history.
Presents a survey of American literature from its sixteenth-century origins onwards, which features the work of over 260 writers. This edition pays attention to cultural contexts through the inclusion of 45 colour plates, 12 contextual clusters, maps and timelines, and section introductions, headnotes, footnotes and bibliographies.
Presents a survey of American literature from its sixteenth-century origins onwards, which features the work of over 260 writers. This edition pays attention to cultural contexts through the inclusion of 45 colour plates, 12 contextual clusters, maps and timelines, and section introductions, headnotes, footnotes and bibliographies.
This 6th edition of the "American Literature Anthology" presents complete major works, balancing classic and newly emergent works representing the extraordinary wealth and diversity of American literature.
A survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, this edition represents essential works in genres, ranging from Seamus Heaney's translation of "Beowulf" to global twentieth-century classics. It contains concise glosses and annotations, period introductions, biographical headnotes, timelines and bibliographies.
Distinguished by its analytical approach, this book covers applications and examples that analyse the important lessons offered by eBay, drug companies, the Yellow Pages and even Maine Lobstermen.
Comprising the complete works of William Shakespeare, based on the Oxford edition, this book has been edited and annotated to provide a single-column text. Each play has an introduction aimed at encouraging a fresh approach to the work. An accompanying CD-ROM is also available.
This 6th edition of the "American Literature Anthology" presents complete major works, balancing classic and newly emergent works representing the extraordinary wealth and diversity of American literature.
Explores the new phenomenon of the "e-personality," which allows people to act online with more exaggerated confidence, sexiness, and charisma than they would in person and discusses how real life is being reconfigured by the Internet.
Discusses how democracy and national self-determination cannot be pursued simultaneously with economic globalization and instead promotes customizable globalization with international rules to achieve balanced prosperity.
This work offers material for students to create a full orchestral score by choosing the appropriate instruments, instrumental combinations and instrumental techniques. New to this edition are a range of music examples, and a chapter on scoring for wind bands.