Literature, Portable Edition: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing (Paperback) by Mr. X J Kennedy, Dana Gioia

from foof2you

A great collection of classic shortstories, plays, and poems. Great introductions of the writers.

from pre20cenbooks

Truly, I found this a very good intro to literature, reading and comprehension takes time, and skill, and literature has been known to be a stimulus to exploring other time periods, peoples. Reading literature was not encouraged in my youth. I had poor community college literature instructor, so ...

from bluecrystal248

Not high level reading, as I would expect from a college textbook, many of the short stories and poems I read in my honors english class during my freshman year of high school. I did not anticipate that I would re-read these stories my freshman year of college in English 1B: Literature and Compos...

from Kisners42

As one might guess from the title this is a college textbook on literature. The coverage on specific topics like "tone", "style", "character", etc. is probably about par with other textbooks on this subject. However, I really kept this book because it has a large number of example stories and poe...

from foof2you

A great collection of classic shortstories, plays, and poems. Great introductions of the writers.