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Highly respected poets, Hall and Emblem have chosen classical and contemporary selections to make this a delightful writer's companion, now in it's ninth edition.A Writer's Reader is a collection of essays, short stories, and poems organized alphabetically by author. Several readings by the same author are provided for a closer look at a writer's style. A rhetorical and thematic index is included to allow readers a way of cross-referencing selections. Overall, A Writer's Reader contains an appealing range of types of selections-essays, a few short stories, a lecture, and a few poems. The collection includes both classic and contemporary writers-such as Maya Angelou, W.H. Auden, Ralph Ellison, Louise Erdrich, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Tillie Olsen, Brent Staples, Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain, Alice Walker, and many others.MARKET For anyone interested in a neatly arranged and useful collection of inspiring short readings.
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A Writer's Reader (7th Ed.)
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HarperCollinsCollegePublishers, New York, 1993
ISBN 10: 0673523330
ISBN 13: 9780673523334
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Seventh Edition. xxiv, 616 pp. First printing. The front cover is creased, and the cover edges are rubbed. The binding is tight and the text is clean. Seller Inventory # 035932
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A Writers Reader
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Harper Collins College Publishers 1994, 1997
ISBN 10: 0673523330
ISBN 13: 9780673523334
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Softcover 7th Ed. Authorship; Writing; Hall and Emblen combine their expertise to create an incomparable resource from which students will derive a more focused perspective on writing and, ultimately, learn how to discover and refine their own techniques. (616 Pgs plus 1287 Instructor Manual) BOOK NEAR VVG. Seller Inventory # AA-SC-1032