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Patrick McCarthy
Camus: The Stranger (A Student Guide: Landmarks of World Literature)
by Cambridge University Press (Paperback)

James Wood
How Fiction Works
by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2008-07-22)

William Shakespeare
Much Ado about Nothing (Cambridge School Shakespeare)
by Cambridge University Press (Paperback)

This edition of Much Ado About Nothing, one of Shakespeare's most delightful and theatrically successful comedies, offers, along with a freshly edited text, an exceptionally helpful and critically aware Introduction and commentary. Paying particular attention in his Introduction to analysis of the play's minor characters, Sheldon P. Zitner discusses Shakespeare's social transformation of his source material, rethinking the attitudes to gender relations that underlie the comedy and determine its ruefully optimistic view of marriage. Interpretations are advanced less because they are arguable than because they are actable. Allowing for the play's openness to re-interpretation by successive generations of readers and performers, the editor provides a socially analytic stage history. Full notes and commentary continue previous editors' work of clarifying textual and performance problems of interest to both readers and actors.

The Norton Anthology of Western Literature, Volume 1
by W. W. Norton (Paperback)

A library of Western literature in two volumes, this new edition offers more than 40 works in their entirety—from Homer's Odyssey to Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart—as well as dozens of excerpted works and over 200 lyric poems.

Rise B. Alelrod, Charles R. Cooper
St. Martin's Guide to Writing
by St Martins Pr (Hardcover)

The best-selling college rhetoric for over 20 years, The St. Martin’s Guide has an unparalleled record of proven success. From the beginning, Axelrod and Cooper have taken the best of classic and contemporary theory, filtered it through their own and their colleagues’ classroom experience, and then blended the result into a flexible classroom tool. Their step-by-step guides to writing specific kinds of essays were a groundbreaking concept and changed the way writing is taught in American colleges. The course continues to change, and Axelrod and Cooper continue to innovate: source-based writing, analysis of argument, online teaching, and visual rhetoric are some of the focuses of this latest revision. By seamlessly incorporating practical, class-tested solutions to these new challenges, Axelrod and Cooper have once again provided the best foundation for college writing.

Workman Publishing Company
Book Lovers Page-A-Day Calendar 2009 (Original Page a Day Calendars)
by Workman Publishing Company (Calendar)

Packed with hundreds of great reads, Book Lover's is the calendar that keeps you reading. So many books to choose from: In a Dry Season, Peter Robinson's beautifully crafted mystery set in the Yorkshire Dales. From Diane Ackerman, a fascinating probe into the secrets of the brain. Pat Conroy recalls his time as a point guard at the Citadel. Plus an A. J. Liebling reader, a ghostwriter's efforts to find her own voice, classic Thornton Wilder, and Luc Sante's lively portrait of old New York.

X. J. Kennedy, Dana M. Gioia, Dana Gioia
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama, Compact Edition (3rd Edition)
by Longman (Paperback)

The rich tradition of Kennedy and Gioia's collective poetic voice brings personal warmth and a human perspective to the discussion of literature. "Writer's "Perspectives" sections give commentary on the craft of writing and revising from authors, which provide insight and a more human perspective on literature and the writing process. "Writing Critically" sections, at the end of each major chapter, expand coverage of composition with accessible and pragmatic suggestions on writing. "Critical Approaches" to Literature section provides two essays on every major school of criticism with sections on gender criticism and cultural studies. New stories, poems, drama and fiction casebooks and a glossary of literary terms have been added to the new edition. For those interested in the study and composition of literature.

Mary Lynn Rampolla
A Pocket Guide to Writing in History
by Bedford/St. Martin's (Paperback)

Its concise yet comprehensive coverage of every step of the research and writing process--with detailed advice on documenting sources and avoiding plagiarism -- have made A Pocket Guide to Writing in History a best-seller over four editions. For the fifth edition, Mary Lynn Rampolla -- who is active in the fields of both history and composition -- provides more practical help with basic skills and new coverage of more sophisticated critical-thinking skills such as analyzing an assignment, reading critically, and constructing a strong argument. Organizational changes over several chapters make it even easier for students at all levels to find the information they need to succeed in their course, saving instructors valuable class time.

Durthy A. Washington
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Cliffs Notes)
by Cliffs Notes (Paperback)

The author, ex-slave Harriet Jacobs, speaks through her narrator Linda Brent to reveal a story of enslavement, degradation, and sexual exploitation. A book-length narrative, it is often cited as the counterpart to Frederick Douglass' An American Slave, Written by Himself. Addressing white women in the North about the bondage of black women in the South, it focuses on five distinct phases in Linda Brent's life.

Edgar V. Roberts, Henty E. Jacobs, Henry E. Jacobs
Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing, Compact, (Reprint), with MLA Update
by Prentice Hall (Paperback)

For Introduction to Literature; Freshman Composition, second semester, where the focus is on writing about literature. A brief, paperback version of the best-selling Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing, this compact edition retains all of the outstanding features of the original text. Like the book on which it is based, it is dedicated throughout to the interlocking processes of reading and writing. In addition to carefully chosen literary selections, each chapter contains detailed information on and sample essays for writing about literature.

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