Product Description: A market leader for more than 30 years, this paperback anthology continues to uphold the traditions that have made it a success— a rich blend of both classic and contemporary selections as well as Barnet’s signature “how-to” apparatus  that covers the elements of literature and the writing process...read more

Intended for students of introduction to literature and literature-based composition courses, this anthology retains its tone, compact size and editorial apparatus while adding new coverage of reading and writing about literature. This edition includes 19 new stories, 49 poems and 7 new plays consisting largely of emerging contemporary and multicultural voices, giving students and instructors a range of selections from both new and established writers.

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Product Description: Book by Barnet, Sylvan, Berman, Morton, Burto, William, Cain, William (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Presenting the complete texts of eight of the world’s greatest plays, this important volume illuminates the changing concept of tragedy from Sophocles to O’Neill.   Some of the world’s greatest dramas unfold on these pages...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

"A remarkably rich and stimulating volume...A unique blending of emotional and intellectual experience." —Los Angeles TimesHere in one volume are the complete texts of eight of the world's greatest plays, masterful examples of the comic view of life in drama. This outstanding treasury of great reading includes the bawdy humor of Machiavelli's Mandragola; the poignant, searching wit of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya; the ironic social comment of Shaw's Arms and the Man; and five other influential works, including a new translation of Molière's satire The Miser, which the editors have prepared especially for this book. Accompanied by provocative essays that define and explore the spirit, structure, and meaning of comedy, this unique volume is an ideal companion to the editors' Eight Great Tragedies (also available in a Meridian edition). (view table of contents)

Essays by eminent critics accompany the complete texts of eight important dramatic plays