Literature The Human Experience Shorter Edition Reading and Writing

• Author : Richard Abcarian,Marvin Klotz,Samuel Cohen
• Publisher : Bedford Books
• Release Date : 2017-10-24
• ISBN : 1319054714

Literature: The Human Experience provides a broad range of compelling fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction that explores the intersections and contradictions of human nature. Timeless themes such as innocence and experience, conformity and rebellion, culture and identity, love and hate, and life and death are presented through the context of experiences that are enduringly human. Diverse selections from contemporary and classic authors across time and cultures offer students opportunities to discover literature with which they can connect. A flexible arrangement

• Author : Richard Abcarian,Marvin Klotz,Samuel Cohen
• Publisher : Bedford/St. Martin's
• Release Date : 2012-09-07
• ISBN : 1457604299

Literature: The Human Experience is based on a simple premise: All students can and will connect with literature if the works they read are engaging, exciting, and relevant. Accordingly, every edition of this classroom favorite has featured a broad range of enticing stories, poems, plays, and essays that explore timeless, ever-resonant themes: innocence and experience, conformity and rebellion, culture and identity, love and hate, life and death. The affordable new edition (a third less expensive than comparable anthologies) opens students

• Author : Richard Abcarian,Marvin Klotz,Samuel Cohen
• Publisher : Bedford/St. Martin's
• Release Date : 2014-07-18
• ISBN : 1457650657

The shorter edition of Literature: The Human Experience provides a broad range of compelling fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction in a compact, well-priced format designed to make teaching literature convenient for instructors and reading and writing about literature enticing for students. Timeless themes—innocence and experience, conformity and rebellion, culture and identity, love and hate, life and death—are presented through the context of connections and experiences that are enduringly human. A flexible arrangement of literature within each theme allows

• Author : Richard Abcarian
• Publisher : Bedford/St. Martin's
• Release Date : 2016-07-15
• ISBN : 1319088120

THIS TITLE HAS BEEN UPDATED TO REFLECT THE 2016 MLA UPDATES! Our editorial team has updated this text based on content from The MLA Handbook, 8th Edition. Browse our catalog or contact your representative for a full listing of updated titles and packages, or to request a custom ISBN. Now in its twelfth edition, Literature: The Human Experience provides a broad range of compelling fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction that explore the intersections and contradictions of human nature. Timeless themes such

• Author : 治·太宰,太宰治
• Publisher : New Directions Publishing
• Release Date : 1958
• ISBN : 0811204812

A young man describes his torment as he struggles to reconcile the diverse influences of Western culture and the traditions of his own Japanese heritage

• Author : Michael Chabon
• Publisher : Open Road Media
• Release Date : 2011-12-20
• ISBN : 9781453234136

The Pulitzer Prize winner explores the literary joys of sci-fi and superheroes, gumshoes and goblins, and the stories that bring us together. “I read for entertainment, and I write to entertain. Period.” Such is the manifesto of Michael Chabon, an author of indisputable literary renown who maintains a fierce appreciation of the seductive arts of so-called “genre” fiction. In this lively collection of sixteen critical and personal essays, the author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay champions the cause

• Author : Jason Reynolds
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release Date : 2017-10-24
• ISBN : 9781481438278

“An intense snapshot of the chain reaction caused by pulling a trigger.” —Booklist (starred review) “Astonishing.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “A tour de force.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) A Newbery Honor Book A Coretta Scott King Honor Book A Printz Honor Book A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021) A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner for Young Adult Literature Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature Winner of the Walter Dean Myers Award An

• Author : Carol Burnell,Jaime Wood,Monique Babin,Susan Pesznecker,Nicole Rosevear
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2020
• ISBN : 1636350283

An interactive, multimedia text that introduces students to reading and writing at the college level.

• Author : Ann Charters
• Publisher : Bedford/st Martins
• Release Date : 2010-08-01
• ISBN : 0312650728

• Author : Sebastian Faulks
• Publisher : Random House
• Release Date : 2011-01-31
• ISBN : 9781446412947

Discover the moving powerful prequel to Snow Country 'An extraordinary novel of magnificent scope' Evening Standard As young boys both Jacques Rebière and Thomas Midwinter become fascinated with trying to understand the human mind. As psychiatrists, their quest takes them from the squalor of the Victorian lunatic asylum to the crowded lecture halls of the renowned Professor Charcot in Paris; from the heights of the Sierra Madre in California to the plains of unexplored Africa. As the concerns of

• Author : Kurt Vonnegut,Suzanne McConnell
• Publisher : Rosetta Books
• Release Date : 2019-11-05
• ISBN : 9780795352836

“A rich, generous book about writing and reading and Kurt Vonnegut as writer, teacher, and friend . . . Every page brings pleasure and insight.”—Gail Godwin, New York Times bestselling author Here is an entirely new side of Kurt Vonnegut, Vonnegut as a teacher of writing. Of course he’s given us glimpses before, with aphorisms and short essays and articles and in his speeches. But never before has an entire book been devoted to Kurt Vonnegut the teacher. Here is pretty

• Author : Pierre Bayard
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
• Release Date : 2010-08-10
• ISBN : 9781596917149

In this delightfully witty, provocative book, literature professor and psychoanalyst Pierre Bayard argues that not having read a book need not be an impediment to having an interesting conversation about it. (In fact, he says, in certain situations reading the book is the worst thing you could do.) Using examples from such writers as Graham Greene, Oscar Wilde, Montaigne, and Umberto Eco, he describes the varieties of "non-reading"-from books that you've never heard of to books that you've read

• Author : Karen Thompson Walker
• Publisher : Random House
• Release Date : 2012-06-26
• ISBN : 9780679644385

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY People ∙ O: The Oprah Magazine ∙ Financial Times ∙ Kansas City Star ∙ BookPage ∙ Kirkus Reviews ∙ Publishers Weekly ∙ Booklist NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A stunner.”—Justin Cronin “It’s never the disasters you see coming that finally come to pass—it’s the ones you don’t expect at all,” says Julia, in this spellbinding novel of catastrophe and survival by a superb new writer. Luminous, suspenseful, unforgettable, The Age of Miracles tells

• Author : Phyllis Jane Brown
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2018-12-21
• ISBN : 1948550016

Winner of the OUTSTANDING FICTION AWARD - The Southern California Writers' Conference Set in Ghana, West Africa, 1785 to 1801 in Book 1, Folayan, the long-awaited girl-child, in whom the fate of the clan exists, is adored and adventurous, and must be reminded that her name means "one who walks in dignity."

• Author : Don DeLillo
• Publisher : Penguin
• Release Date : 1999-06-01
• ISBN : 9781440674471

A brilliant satire of mass culture and the numbing effects of technology, White Noise tells the story of Jack Gladney, a teacher of Hitler studies at a liberal arts college in Middle America. Jack and his fourth wife, Babette, bound by their love, fear of death, and four ultramodern offspring, navigate the rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. Then a lethal black chemical cloud, unleashed by an industrial accident, floats over there lives, an "