Elements of Literature: Essay, Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Film

by RobertScholes (Editor), Carl H . Klaus (Editor), Michael Silverman (Editor), NancyR.Comley (Editor)

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  1991

  $3.29

  Providing the most thorough coverage available in one volume, this comprehensive, broadly based collection offers a wide variety of selections in four major genres, and also includes a section on film. Updated and revised, this fourth edition adds essays by Margaret Mead, Russell Baker, Joan Didion, Annie Dillard, and Alice Walker; many new short stories; the addition of poets Langston Hughes and Louise Gluck; and plays by August Wilson, Marsha Norman, Wendy Wasserstein, and Vaclav Havel.