A survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, this edition represents essential works in genres, ranging from Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf to global twentieth-century classics. It contains concise glosses and annotations, period introductions, biographical headnotes, timelines and bibliographies.

This volume is a reprint of the Shakespeare Head Press edition, and it presents all the plays in chronological order in which they were written. It also includes Shakespeare's Sonnets, as well as his longer poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece .

A survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, this edition represents essential works in genres, ranging from Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf to global twentieth-century classics. It contains concise glosses and annotations, period introductions, biographical headnotes, timelines and bibliographies.

This bestselling anthology of poetry in English has now been fully updated in a fifth edition.

SMOKE AND MIRRORS will haunt your imagination and move you to the very depths of your soul

Presents stories and poems that probe to the depths of the human psyche. This book includes the detective story Murders in the Rue Morgue ; the disturbing classic, The Fall of the House of Usher and the horrifyingly claustrophobic, The Pit and the Pendulum .

Wolves and grandmothers, ugly sisters, a house made of bread, a goose made of gold. This is a collection of folk tales collected by the Grimm brothers.

A collection of original fairy tales for adults, this companion volume to acclaimed anthologies, Snow White, Blood Red and Black Thorn, White Rose , presents 21 stories by some of the top names in literature.

A dazzling book of short stories from one of modern fiction's greatest and most imaginative writers

With a biting wit and perceptive insight, Dorothy Parker examines the social mores of her day and exposes the darkness beneath the dazzle.

This edition has been expanded to extend coverage of the Renaissance, the 17th and 18th centuries, and the 20th century. The text also contains 11 complete works such as Oroonoko , Jane Eyre , The Ballad of the Sad Cafe , The Awakening and Caryl Churchill's play, Top Girls .

We've all had bad dates. But that's nothing compared to the supernatural hijinx in DATES FROM HELL, when Kim Harrison, Lynsay Sands, Kelley Armstrong, and Lori Handeland look at what happens when your date is literally from hell or at least, not quite of this world! Bestselling Kim Harrison returns to the Hollows with Undead in the Garden of Good and Evil , an enthralling look into the dark, ...

A collection of stories featuring feisty female heroines. Authors include Elizabeth Moon, Jody Lynne Nye, Harry Turtledove and Margaret Ball.

When Earth is destroyed to make way for a Hyperspatial express route, Arthur Dent discovers that space is big, as he is taken on a hair-raising tour of the Galaxy and its very strange inhabitants, by his friend Ford Perfect. This is a new edition which incorporates the fifth part of the trilogy.

Includes original stories that have heart, soul and wit.

In print since 1948, this is a single-volume collection of Oscar Wilde's texts. It contains his only novel, The Portrait of Dorian Gray as well as his plays, stories, poems, essays and letters. Illustrated with many photographs.

This anthology of critical writing ranges from Gorgias and Plato to Sigmund Freud and Mikhail Bakhtin. Each of the 147 contributions has a headnote introducing the writer and making connections to other critics, theorists and movements. An introduction surveys the history of theory and criticism.

Beginning in the late 1940's, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was beat. This book collects the significant writings of the fellow members of the Beat Generation. In poetry, fiction, essays, and memoirs, it captures the triumphant rudeness, energy, and exhilaration of a movement that swept through American letters.

Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes have brought together an inspired and diverse selection, ranging from undisputed masterpieces to rare discoveries, as well as drawing upon works in translation and traditional poems from oral cultures. In effect, this anthology has transformed the way we define and appreciate poetry, and it will continue to do so for years to come.