Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing, Compact Edition

By Robert Zweig, Edgar V. Roberts, Henry E. Jacobs

Book Overview

KEY BENEFIT Literature An Introduction to Reading and Writing integrates the writing process into the presentation of all literary genres, elements, and major writers throughout the entire text. KEY TOPICS Over 400 stories, poems, and plays gives the reader a broad selection of time-tested classics by writers like Guy de Maupassant, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Shirley Jackson alongside of acclaimed, innovative contemporary work by such diverse voices as Amy Tan, Raymond Carver, and Leslie Marmon Silko. Part I is devoted to reading, responding to, and writing about literature. There is one chapter on research for each genre. Portraits/photos of writers give readers a more personal sense of the authors being studied. MARKET: For anyone wanting to engage in the study of literature to improve their writing skills.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 032194478X
• ISBN13: 9780321944788
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 1760 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful Text!

I bought this text for use in a college English class. I truly enjoyed it so much that I decided to keep it after the class was over. It contains a wonderful compliation of different types of literature - lots of classics. Really gives the reader the ability to understand good literature and an appreciation for the abilities of a good author!

This book has helped me tremendously in my Eng. 102 class.

Without this book I would not have been able to even pass my Eng. 102 class. It has alot of good stories in it that helped me with my writing process.

Excellent Anthology of Literature

It's an excellent anthology. Here are some of the writers, playwrights, authors, and others who have contributed to this text. Aesop; Matthew Arnold; Anne Bradstreet; Aphra Behn; William Blake; Robert Burns; Lord Byron; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Robert Browning; Robert Bridges; Thomas Campion; Richard Crashaw; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Lewis Carroll; Michael Drayton; John Donne; John Dryden; Emily Dickinson; Anne Finch; Thomas Gray; Robert Herrick; George Herbert; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Frances E.W. Harper; Thomas Hardy; Henrik Ibsen; Ben Jonson; Henry King; John Keats; Richard Lovelace; Christopher Marlowe; John Milton; Andrew Marvell; Moliere; Thomas Nashe; Katherine Phillips; Alexander Pope; Edgar Allan Poe; Sir Walter Raleigh; Christina Rossetti; Sophocles; Saint Luke; Edmund Spenser; Sir Philip Sidney; William Shakespeare; Jonathan Swift; Percy Shelley; Edward Taylor; Lord Alfred Tennyson; Mark Twain; Sir Thomas Wyatt; Edmyund Waller; Phyllis Wheatley; William Wordsworth; Cornelius Whur; Walt Whitman;

Enjoyable learning tool

I used this book in my class in college. I throughly enjoyed the poems, stories etc. The writing information was clear and easily understood. I disagree with the reviewer blaming the book for the lower grade. I got an A.

a dense book

I had to write a review after seeing the only other review for this book. It sounded like some kid who had to take a class he didn't want to and blaimed the book for it. This is a great book. It's super dense, it contains a great deal of analysis of the various components of writing with illustrative examples (short stories) by a wide variety of contemporary and classic authors. This is a great anthology. It contains almost 1,500 pages and contains poetry, plays, and fiction. Also, it contains some biographical information and has a glossary of literary terms. A bargain for the price if you ask me.