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Description
Providing the most thorough coverage available in one volume, this
comprehensive, broadly based collection offers a wide variety of
selections in four major genres, and also includes a section on film.
Each of the five sections contains a detailed critical introduction to
each form, brief biographies of the authors, and a clear, concise
editorial apparatus. Updated and revised throughout, the new Fourth
Edition adds essays by Margaret Mead, Russell Baker, Joan Didion, Annie
Dillard, and Alice Walker; fiction by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ursula K.
LeGuin, Anton Chekov, James Joyce, Katherine Mansfield, F. Scott
Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Alice Walker, Louise Erdrich, Donald
Barthelme, and James McPherson; poems by John Donne, Robert Browning,
Walt Whitman, Edwin Arlington Robinson, e.e. cummings, Langston Hughes,
W.H. Auden, Philip Levine, and Louise Gluck; and plays by August Wilson,
Marsha Norman, Wendy Wasserstein, and Vaclav Havel. The chapter
devoted to film examines the relation of film to literature and gives
the complete screenplay for Citizen Kane plus close analysis of
a scene from the film. With its innovative structure, comprehensive
coverage, and insightful and stimulating presentation of all kinds of
literature, this is an anthology readers will turn to again and again.
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