Literature: Reading and Writing the Human Experience

- The most substantial brief anthology at the lowest price. At only $25.50 net, Literature includes a rich variety of readings in a brief format -- and at a price students can afford.- Popular, teachable literature from four genres. This edition offers a total of 37 stories ranging from Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" to Leslie Marmon Silko's "The Man to Send Rain Clouds, " 144 poems, including work from Seamus Heaney, Marge Piercy, and Nikki Giovanni; eight plays, including Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun and Harvey Fierstein's On Tidy Endings; and 16 essays, including Maya Angelou's "Graduation in Stamps" and Maxine Hong Kingston's "No Name Woman."- Flexible thematic organization. Five broad thematic sections -- Innocence and Experience, Conformity and Rebellion, Culture and Identity, Love and Hate, and The Presence of Death -- encourage students to explore and write about the great themes of human experience. Within themes, selections are grouped by genre -- fiction, poetry, drama, and essay. An alternative table of contents allows instructors to organize courses by genre.Richard Abcarian is the author of 'Literature: Reading and Writing the Human Experience' with ISBN 9780312206918 and ISBN 0312206917.