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Portable Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing

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We used this book in my literature class, and I should say that I am not a fan of literature classes, but this book was very surprising. It contains short stories, poems, and plays like any other text, but if offers a wide variety of topics for selection by the professor or the student based on personal preferences or educational objectives. For instance, when working with poetry, students may choose from a variety of poems from baseball to romance. It is all there! Another example would be the short stories in the text; they range from stories of military experience to Asian family traditions. It is not only a literature book, but also a book of culture and variety. It is so well rounded it should appeal to all types of personalities, likes, and dislikes.

The authors, writers, poets, and playwrights include the following;
Maya Angelou; Leonard Adame; W.H. Auden; Margaret Atwood;
Robert Browning; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Rupert Brooke; Charles Bukowski; Suzanne Berger; Matsuo Basho;
Kate Chopin; Raymond Carver; e.e. cummings; Judith Ortiz Cofer; Lucille Clifton; Thomas Campion;
Emily Dickinson; Ariel Dorfman;
William Faulkner; Robert Frost; Jane Flanders;
Susan Glaspell; Nadine GOrdimer; Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Nikki Giovanni;
Louise Gluck; Barbara Greenberg;
Ernest Hemingway; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Robert Hayden; Seamus Heaney; Ted Hughes; Langston Hughes; Thomas Hardy; Robert Herrick; A.E. Housman;
James Joyce; Shirley Jackson;
David Michael Kaplan; Jamaica Kincaid; Yusef Komunyakaa; Carolyn Kizer;
D.H. Lawrence; Robert Lowell; Denise LEvertov;
Katherine Mansfield; Archibald Macleish; Marianne Moore; Christopher Marlowe; Janice Mirikitani;
Tillie Olsen; Flannery O'Connor; Joyce Carol Oates; Wilfred Owen;
Ann Petry; Edgar Allan Poe; Dorothy Parker; Sylvia Plath; Ezra Pound;
Alberto Alvaro Rios; Adrienne Rich; Theodore Roethke; Sir Walter Raleigh;
Dudley Randall;
William Shakespeare; Leslie Marmon SIlko; Percy Bysshe Shelley; Anne Sexton; Sipho Sepamla; William Stafford; Jim Sagel; Edmund Spenser; Gary Snyder;
Amy Tan; Dylan Thomas;
John Updike;
Richard Wright; Alice Walker; Eudora Welty; William Wordsworth; Walt Whitman; James Wright; Richard Wilbur; William Carlos Williams;
William BUtler Yeats;
Louis ZUkofsky;

I used this book for a college literature class. It is a great book covering short stories, plays, poems and more. This is one book I will not be selling back!

This book is a good small edition to the full-sized book. While it is off in page numbers, and thusly creates the need to admit to not having the full text, the book itself had everything I needed for my class.

I used this book for a college literature class. It is a great book, I loved most all of the short stories, plays, poems and more. I only thing is that before buying this book look for past ed. I bought this one not knowing that I had the book in the ed. before. The cover is different but that is all my friend had the older book and was just fine, Save some money.

I had to buy this book for a literature class, and it is chock full of everything from poetry to plays to fiction, long and short stories. Nice book. Have been reading more than the required because it has such a nice selection.

It couldn't of been any better. I was able to get the book on time. The condition like new was more than right. The book was flawless. Very pleased by its condition and price.

i was very pleased with the item and the delivery. it was a pleasure doing business with you.

This turned out to be an excellent book. I'm an avid reader and the selection of stories as well as the authors were chosen with perfection. To have purchased such quality at this economical price is truly a blessing. This book will stay in my collection to reference throughout the years.

This book carries a ton of stories and the price cannot be beaten. Great variety of literature as well.