The New Oxford Book of English Prose
The New Oxford Book of English Prose

Author: John Gross

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 1064

ISBN-13:

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This is a unique anthology. Drawing on the full range of English prose, wherever it has been written, it illustrates the growth, development, and resources of the language from the legends of Sir Thomas Malory to the novels of Kashuo Ishiguro. In the process it reveals a variety ofachievements which no other language can match. The book represents an enormous diversity of men and women - from John Bunyan to John Updike, from Brendan Behan to Chinua Achebe, from Dorothy Wordsworth to Patrick White. As the centuries progress, American writers increase their presence, and by the twentieth century there are contributions fromIndia, Australia, Canada, Nigeria, the Caribbean and many other parts of the world. The selection is no less remarkable for its breadth in terms of subject-matter and treatment. Fiction is generously represented, but many other kinds of writing have also been drawn on: letters, diaries, and memoirs; history and philosophy; criticism and reportage; sermons and satire; travel-books;reflections on art, science, politics and sport. There are classic and well-loved passages, and also a great deal that is unfamiliar. John Gross has chosen with consummate skill to produce a volume that is both a testimonial to English prose and an endless source of pleasurable browsing.

Models of the Universe
Models of the Universe

Author: Stuart Friebert

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13:

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Here at last is a comprehensive anthology of one of the world's most fascinating literary hybrids. This strange sub-genre encompasses the history of modern poetry, from its beginnings in romanticism (Bertrand, Turgenev, Baudelaire), its adolescence in Symbolism (Mallarme, Rimbaud, Trakl), its maturity in high modernism (Stein, Williams, Kafka, Montale, Follain, Char, Vallejo, H.D., and others), and its middle age in post-modernism (Cortazar, Bishop, Ashbery, Simic, Edson, Bly...) up to the present.

Citizens at Work Vol - II
Citizens at Work Vol - II

Author:

Publisher: The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 9788179930953

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Business in India is on a growth trajectory and is turning out to be a major contributor to the social development of the country

The Norton Anthology of Poetry
The Norton Anthology of Poetry

Author: Ferguson, Margaret

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2004-12-07

Total Pages: 53

ISBN-13: 0393979202

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The Fifth Edition retains the flexibility and breadth of selection that has defined this classic anthology, while improved and expanded editorial apparatus make it an even more useful teaching tool.

Renaissance Literature
Renaissance Literature

Author: Michael Payne

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Published: 2003-02-14

Total Pages: 1184

ISBN-13: 9780631198987

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Responding to the broadening of the canon in recent years, this accessible anthology balances a generous selection of familiar Renaissance figures with important texts by women writers. Includes important texts by women writers alongside more familiar Renaissance masters. Offers many key works of the period in their entirety. Introductions and annotations to the texts reflect the developments in critical and cultural theory as well as the current state of Renaissance scholarship. One of the first anthologies to include cross-references to materials available on the Internet.

Premodern Korean Literary Prose
Premodern Korean Literary Prose

Author: Michael J. Pettid

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2018-01-23

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 0231546017

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This anthology presents new translations of Korean prose works from the tenth to the nineteenth century. It offers insight into past Korean societies by highlighting genres that have largely not been translated, such as diaries, short fictional biographies, erotic tales, oral narratives, and novellas, all of which illustrate the depth and variety of premodern Korean writings. The selections are intended to show what literate people of the premodern period enjoyed reading and demonstrate the cultural diversity of the creation of literature, including a range of writings by women and nonelites such as commoners. The volume also includes critical essays and short introductions to contextualize the materials and explain the ideological backdrop behind the creation of the works.

The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes
The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes

Author: John Gross

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 0199543410

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In The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, master anthologist John Gross brings together a delectable smorgasbord of literary tales, offering striking new insight into some of the most important writers in history. Many of the anecdotes here are funny, others are touching, outrageous, sinister, inspiring, or downright weird. They show writers from Chaucer to Bob Dylan acting both unpredictably and deeply in character. The range is wide--this is a book which finds room for Milton and Shakespeare, Mark Twain and Walt Whitman, Kurt Vonnegut and P. G. Wodehouse, Chinua Achebe and Salman Rushdie, James Baldwin and Tom Wolfe. It is also a book in which you can find out which great historian's face was once mistaken for a baby's bottom, which film star experienced a haunting encounter with Virginia Woolf not long before her death, and what Agatha Christie really thought of her popular character Hercule Poirot. It is in short an unrivalled collection of literary gossip offering intimate glimpses into the lives of authors ranging from Shakespeare to Philip Roth--a book not just for lovers of literature, but for anyone with a taste for the curiosities of human nature.

The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem
The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem

Author: Jeremy Noel-Tod

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2018-11-29

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 0241285801

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'A wonderful book - an invigorating revelation ... An essential collection of prose poems from across the globe, by old masters and new, reveals the form's astonishing range' Kate Kellaway, Observer 'A superb anthology . . . it is hard to know how it could possibly be bettered' Daily Telegraph This is the prose poem: a 'genre with an oxymoron for a name', one of literature's great open secrets, and the home for over 150 years of extraordinary work by many of the world's most beloved writers. This uniquely wide-ranging anthology gathers essential pieces of writing from every stage of the form's evolution, beginning with the great flowering of recent years before moving in reverse order through the international experiments of the 20th century and concluding with the prose poem's beginnings in 19th-century France. Edited with an introduction by Jeremy Noel-Tod