Product Description: Volume 2C (20th Century) of 6-volume splits of parent volumes. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: What Writers Do, with its behind the scenes look at the craft of writing, celebrates the series that continues to connect great writers with delighted readers. For more than 20 years the Visiting Writers Series at Lenoir-Rhyne University has championed great writers -- both established and emerging...read more

John Crace turns his critical eye on the classics of the last century, offering bite–sized pastiches of everything from Mrs Dalloway to Trainspotting via Lolita and The Great Gatsby. Those who have never quite got around to reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man will be delighted to find its essence distilled into a handful of paragraphs. Those who have never really enjoyed Lord of the Flies will be pleased to find it hilariously parodied in an easily swallowable 982 words. And those who find all such works a little highbrow will be relieved to discover, between the covers of this book, John Crace's take on the likes of Ian Fleming, P. G. Wodehouse, and the Highway Code. Witty and sharp, this is essential reading both for those who genuinely love literature and for those who merely want to appear ridiculously well read.

Product Description: Concert of Voices combines poetry, fiction, drama, and essays in an anthology of world literature in English. This second edition preserves the first edition’s breadth and its balance of established and less widely known authors, while including a large selection of exciting new material...read more

Product Description: This unprecedented comprehensive anthology of short canonical readings on important topics in fin-de-siècle literature offers the most prominent examples of poetry, fiction, prose, and drama for thorough in-depth study.  This anticipated collection features non-canonical stories, poems, and articles alongside well-known works by fin-de-siècle authors...read more

Product Description: <div><br/><div>The five works have been chosen to illustrate six concepts in the anti-feminist debate, continuing into the twentieth century. <br/><p>Volume 1 is a work of fiction by Mrs Humphry Ward entitled <i>Daphne</i> or, <i>Marriage a la Mode</i>...read more

Product Description: Collection of Irish poetry by winners of the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award

Product Description: Anthology of 23 short stories, essays and extracts, covers two centuries. fiction from India, England, Canada, South Africa and the U.S. Valuable guide, app. 40% India, includes Mansfield, Wollstonecraft, Fuller, Woolf, many prominent South Asian women writers

Product Description: This anthology investigates all aspects of counter culture in Scotland, tracing a timeline of seismic events, ideas and art-actions that were retranslated by each successive generation. The anthology has a running commentary -peering into the strata of four decades, picking through the archaeological remains, accompanied by newly commissioned letters from Edwin Morgan, Helen Douglas, Stephen Willats, Malcolm Dickinson and Craig Richardson...read more

A wide array of writers pen their thoughts on cocaine, including Irvine Welsh, Bret Easton Ellis, William S. Burroughs, Timothy Leary, Sigmund Freud, Arthur Conan Doyle, and many others. Original. (view table of contents)

Volume 2C (20th Century) of 6-volume splits of parent volumes. (view table of contents)

With five Nobel Prize-winners, seven Pulitzer Prize-winners and two Booker Prize-winning novelists, modern Irish writing has contributed something special and permanent to our understanding of the twentieth century. Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century provides a useful, comprehensive and pleasurable introduction to modern Irish literature in a single volume.Organized chronologically by decade, this anthology provides the reader with a unique sense of the development and richness of Irish writing and of the society it reflected.It embraces all forms of writing, not only the major forms of drama, fiction and verse, but such material as travel writing, personal memoirs, journalism, interviews and radio plays, to offer the reader a complete and wonderfully varied sense of Ireland's contribution our literary heritage.David Pierce has selected major literary figures as well as neglected ones, and includes many writers from the Irish diaspora. The range of material is enormous, and ensures that work that is inaccessible or out of print is now easily available.The book is a delightful compilation, including many well known pieces and captivating "discoveries," which anyone interested in literature will long enjoy browsing and dipping into. (view table of contents)

A collection of classic nineteenth- and twentieth-century fantastical literature includes the work of Washington Iriving, Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Lewis Carroll, H.G. Wells, and many others. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: A lover haunted by the scent of wolves; a wife traded for a beautiful beggar; a dead mother swinging from a beam in a barn. These are some of the images in this second selection of disquieting prose and poetry by some of the best new women writers of 1999...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Offers a collection of work from various Scottish writers who have revolutionized late-twentieth-century literature, such as Alan Warner, Irvine Welsh, Janice Galloway, William Boyd, and others. Original.

Two centuries of writers--including Harold Brodkey, George Eliot, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Calvin Trillin, Michael Ondaatje, Lawrence Durrell, Edith Wharton, and others--celebrate their love of Italy in an anthology of short stories, essays, poetry, journals, letters, and novel excerpts. Original. (view table of contents)