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Statesman and author, Edmund Burke was sympathetic to the American colonies and the Irish Catholics, but a fervent enemy of the French Revolution. This anthology presents selections from Burke's writings and speeches, including the celebrated "Reflections on the French Revolution."

Essential passages form the works of more than 100 fifteenth-and sixteenth-century thinkers and writers, including Erasmus, Cervantes, Boccaccio, Montaigne, Bodin, Dürer, Machiavelli, Guicciardini, Rabelais, Leonardo, Cellini, Copernicus, Galileo, Savonarola, Luther, and Calvin.

An anthology of the American short story between the Civil War and World War I, containing 47 stories by 30 writers. There are introductory essays on the historical and literary context of the Age of Realism, a chronology, critical headnotes and minibiographies.

The American West is as varied in its inhabitants as in its landforms. Yet what has come to stand for "Western" writing is the myth of the wagon train and the lone gunman. In the Portable Wester Reader, William Kittredge has assembled stories, poems, essays, and excerpts that transcend the Western myth and explore the vast range of Western experience. With selections from more than seventy authors, and an introduction and headnotes by William Kittredge. The Portable Western Reader redefines the Western literary landscape.

An essay on life during the Victorian era prefaces a collection of writings by leading British authors whose works reflect the values and concerns of the age.

Presents a collection of writings that describe all aspects of Medieval society.

This text includes 28 stories from Chekhov, including: "The Man in the Shell"; "Goosberries"; "The Darling"; and "The Lady With the Pet Dog". A selection of letters is also included.

Presents over 70 of Coleridge's major poems, portions of the Biographia Literaria, critical essays, and selected letters.