A comprehensive collection of African-American literature features more than 120 writers with works covering more than two hundred years and encompassing the genres of fiction, poetry, short stories, drama, autobiography, journals, and letters.

The Norton Anthology of African American Literature

Literature & Fiction

McKay, Nellie Y.

United States

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Buzzed: The Straight Dope About the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy

Medical Books

Kuhn, Cynthia

Swartzwelder, Scott, Ph.D.

Wilson, Wilkie, Ph.D.

Wilson, Heather

Foster, Jeremy

Duke University Medical Center

Pharmacology

The forty stories in this volume include works from the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, from America, England, the Continent, Africa, and South America. The selections are arranged to enable the student and teacher to read with increasing understanding - first of subject and theme, then of form, kinds, and technique, and finally of historical and biographical considerations. Contains an instructive preface to the reading of the genre, and also a series of concluding essays on important topics.

Fiction

Beaty, Jerome

History & Criticism

Audio companion. Educational multi media.

The Norton Anthology African American Literature: Audio Companion

Gates, Henry Louis

World Literature

The Norton Anthology of English Literature : The Major Authors

M. H. Abrams

This seventh edition's thoroughly revised text incorporates recent scholarly developments while retaining the elements that have made the anthology useful in the past. New features includes a broader representation of women writers of all historical periods such as Marie de France, Frances Burney, Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, Elizabeth Gaskell and Eavan Boland; a richer treatment of post-Colinial writers such as Jean Rhys, Chinua Achebe, V.S. Naipaul, Anita Desai, Les Murray, Salman Rushdie, J.M. Coetzee and Paul Mundoon; and a new set of cultural and thematic "Issues" such as "The Literature of the Sacred", "The Science of Self and World", "Slavery and Freedom", "Revolution, Rights and Liberation" and "The Rise and Fall of Empire". The period introductions, author headnotes, annotations and bibliographies have been revised and many have been rewritten for this edition. The highlight of this edition is a new verse translation of "Beowulf" by Seamus Heaney.

The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 7th Ed, Vol. 1 (Packaged with Media Companion)

The most-trusted literature anthology of all time, now in its 50th year.The Ninth Edition offers more complete works and more teachable groupings than ever before, the apparatus you trust, and a new, free Supplemental Ebook with more than 1,000 additional texts. Read by more than 8 million students, The Norton Anthology of English Literature sets the standard and remains an unmatched value.The Norton Anthology of English Literature is now available as an interactive ebook, at just a fraction of the print price. 

The Norton Anthology of English Literature

Stephen Greenblatt

A revised edition includes the most recent findings and provides accessible, objective information in the form of quick-reference summaries and in-depth analyses, discussing how each drug enters the body, their short- and long-term effects, and the circumstances in which they are most dangerous. Original. 20,000 first printing.

Buzzed: The Straight Facts About the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy

Wilson, Leigh Heather

Health, Fitness & Dieting

New Mermaids are modernized and fully-annotated editions of classic English plays. Each volume includes: The playtext, in modern spelling, edited to the highest bibliographical and textual standards Textual notes recording significant changes to the copytext and variant readings Glossing notes explaining obscure words and word-play Critical, contextual and staging notes Photographs of productions where applicable A full introduction which provides a critical account of the play, the staging conventions of the time and recent stage history; discusses authorship, date, sources and the text; and gives guidance for further reading. Edited and updated by leading scholars and printed in a clear, easy-to-use format, New Mermaids offer invaluable guidance for actor, student, and theatre-goer alike.

She Stoops to Conquer (New Mermaids)

Oliver Goldsmith

Dramas & Plays

With nearly a million copies sold over five editions, America: A Narrative History is distinguished by its clear, colorful narrative and balanced incorporation of political history with social, cultural, and economic events. Retaining these classic strengths, the Sixth Edition introduces a new themethe role of work in American lifeand explores its social, political, and cultural dimensions. With an updated ancillary package that includes the new Norton Map Workbook in American History, America remains a superb choice for the US history survey.

America a Narrative History Brief

History

Tindall, George Brown

Shi, David Emory

Americas

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