Literature of the Western World, Volume I: The Ancient World Through the Renaissance: 1 - Softcover

Wilkie, Brian; Hurt, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 013018666X ISBN 13: 9780130186669

Publisher: Pearson, 2000

Synopsis

For surveys of World Literature or Literature of the Western World in departments of English, Comparative Literature.

The most comprehensive, best-selling anthology of its kind, this two-volume survey allows students and instructors to choose among the most important canonical and less-familiar texts of the Western literary tradition in Europe and the Americas. It offers complete texts whenever possible, uses the best translations of foreign-language material, and, when appropriate, presents more than one text by each author. It provides extensive analytic and explanatory apparatus, including detailed historical and biographical notes and introductions to six literary periods.

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This first volume of a two-volume survey allows students and instructors to choose among the most important canonical and less familiar texts of the Western literary tradition in Europe and the Americas.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 013018666X
• ISBN 13: 9780130186669
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 2384