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9780838448502

20th Century American Short Stories Volume 1

This is an anthology of stories which represent the cultural and ethnic diversity of twentieth century America. Most of the stories are fairly short (from 500 to 6,000 words) and range from the humorous to the deadly serious. They raise accessible questions of general interest: relations in the family and between the sexes, traditions that are being eroded, clashes of culture that are not always acknowledged by those who experience them.

Unabridged stories by a wide variety of American voices: Sandra Cisneros, Raymond Carver, Grace Paley, James Thurber, William Saroyan, John Collier, Hisaye Yamamoto, Jesse Stuart, William Carlos Williams, Shirley Jackson, Pam Houston and Arthur C. Clarke.

·  Stories from the 1930s to the 1990s.

·  Pre-reading support: Introduction (presents the author in the context of his/her time) and glossary ("Uncommon Words or Meanings")

·  Post-reading support: Understanding the Story (questions requiring synthesis and analysis — encourage careful reading and introduce students to the use of literary terms), Developing a Way with Words (a closer look at stylistic aspects of the story) and Making Connections (a wide range of activities: discussion, creative suggestions, comparisons, writing etc.)

(158 pages) Level: C/1.g etc.

9780838448519

20th Century American Short Stories Volume 2

This is an anthology of stories which represent the cultural and ethnic diversity of twentieth century America. Most of the stories are fairly short and range from the humorous to the deadly serious. They raise accessible questions of general interest: relations in the family and between the sexes, traditions that are being eroded, clashes of culture that are not always acknowledged by those who experience them. The stories in this volume are slightly longer and more complex in structure and vocabulary than the stories in Volume 1.

A further wide variety of American voices: Ernest Hemingway, Toshio Mori, John Updike, Leslie Marmon Silko, Danny Santiago, Judy Troy, Carson McCullers, Lucy Honig, W.D.Wetherell, Andrea Lee, Mark Steven Hess and Donald Hall.

·  Stories from the 1920s to the 1990s.

·  Pre-reading support: Introduction (presents the author in the context of his/her time) and glossary ("Uncommon Words or Meanings")

·  Post-reading support: Understanding the Story (questions requiring synthesis and analysis — encourage careful reading and introduce students to the use of literary terms), Developing a Way with Words (a closer look at stylistic aspects of the story) and Making Connections (a wide range of activities: discussion, creative suggestions, comparisons, writing etc.)

(204 pages) Level: B/2.g etc.

9780553277456

50 Great Short Stories

50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection of the world’s finest short fiction. A great range of authors are represented: Hawthorne, Poe, H.G.Wells, Henry James, Conrad, Edith Wharton, Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, Steinbeck, Katherine Mansfield, Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Faulkner, E.B. White, Thomas Wolfe, Shirley Jackson, Saroyan, Frank O’Connor. The variety in style and subject is enormous, but all these stories have a quality which places them among the masterpieces of world fiction. Editor: Milton Crane. (571 pages)
Level: Gymnasiet/Seminariet etc.

9780415360937

American Culture: An Anthology

American Culture: An Anthology brings together primary texts from 1600 to the present day to provide a comprehensive introduction to American culture. The 130 texts are taken from sources such as political addresses, articles, interviews, oral histories, songs and advertisements. The documents throughout the volume are quite short, typically three or four pages and are organized into 13 sections. Each section is organized chronologically and begins with a 2-3 page introduction of relevant issues and debates. A highly recommended title! The book provides:

  • texts that introduce aspects of American society in an historical perspective
  • primary sources and images that can be used as the basis for illustration, analysis and discussion
  • linking texts which stress themes rather than offering a simple chronological survey.

    Contents: Introduction 1. American Indians 2. Immigration 3. African Americans 4. Women's Studies 5. Govermnent and Politics 6. Economy, Enterprise, Class 7. Geography, Regions and the Environment 8. Art, Film, Music and Popular Culture 9. Religion 10. Education 11. Language and the Media 12. Foreign Affairs 13. Ideology: Dominant Beliefs and Values

    The editors are experienced in the study and teaching of American Studies at Norwegian universities: Professor Anders Breidlid, Professor Fredrik Chr. Brøgger, Professor Oyvind T. Gulliksen and Professor Torbjorn Sirevag. (434 pages)

    Level:  A/A great resource for gymnasium English teachers/Linjefag and post-gymnnasium levels

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    American Ways

    Unchanged special Price in 2010!

    An Introduction to American Culture.
    New edition: Readings and facts, figures and events have been updated. The discussion of American Values has been completely re-written in the light of the challenges posed by September 11. Web-based activities have been added.
    A 296-page collection of original texts explaining American values, attitudes and cultural patterns. The book shows how religion, the frontier and a heritage of abundant resources helped shape American values, and how these values are reflected in business, government, race relations, education and the family today. Major emphasis on America’s multi-cultural diversity and new lifestyles. Each text is followed up by good activities to bring out cross-cultural comparisons and stimulate discussion, and exercises in vocabulary (especially standard academic vocabulary) — as well as a list of recommended films and internet activities for further study.
    Contents: Understanding the Culture of the United States — Traditional American Values and Beliefs — The American Religious heritage — The Frontier Heritage — The Heritage of Abundance — The World of American Business — Government and Politics in the USA — Ethnic and Racial Diversity in the United States — Education in the United States — How American Spend Their Leisure Time — The American Family — American Values at the Crossroads
    Level: A-B/Linjefag

    9780131924185

    American Ways – Teacher's Resource Manual

    New edition. Includes:
  • A detailed discussion of what culture is and suggestions for opening cross-cultural dialogues in the classroom
  • Instructions on how to use the textbook exercises in the classroom
  • Expansion activities that go beyond the textbook
  • Over 50 photocopiable masters
  • Answer key
    • AQA002

    AQA Anthology

    An imaginative anthology that contains:
  • 2 clusters of 8 poems from “Different Cultures”: by Grace Nichols, Edward Brathwaite, Chinua Achebe, Moniza Alvi and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
  • 4 sections with 8 poems by 4 poets: Seamus Heaney, Gillian Clarke, Carol Ann Duffy, Simon Armitage.
  • A “Pre-1914” Poetry Bank: poems by Yeats, Blake, Hardy, Tennyson etc.
  • A section of short stories by Doris Lessing, Sylvia Plath (“Superman and Paula Brown's New Snowsuit”), Michèle Roberts, Joyce Cary, Ernest Hemingway, Graham Swift and Leslie Norris.NB! See also “Working with the Anthology for AQA” in this section!”
    Level: B/A
    • 0198318944

    AQA English GCSE Specification A: Teachers' Book

    A really useful resource book to accompany the AQA anthology. Model answers, resources for differentiation, photocopiable materials etc.
    9781845963880

    Auld Reekie

    Now in a cheaper paperback edition:
    Making a trip to Edinburgh? This wonderful collection of stories, articles, memoirs, letters, poems and tales about Edinburgh past and present will prove invaluable:
    For centuries Edinburgh, ‘the most beautiful city in Europe’ according to John Betjeman, has inspired affection and admiration from both natives and visitors alike. This absorbing anthology spans five hundred years of the city's history from the Battle of Flodden to the novels of lan Rankin, with famous names such as Sir Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson alongside less familiar ones such as the Chinese writer Chiang Yee. This book is a great tribute to a city now in the full flood of a social, political and cultural renaissance. Editor: Ralph Lownie. (335 pages)

    Contents: Introduction — First Impressions — Places — People — Visitors — Everyday Life In Adversity And Joy — Pillars of the City — A Final Tribute.

    9780300154108

    Best Technology Writing 2009

    A great collection of essays from print and online publications:

    Is Google Making Us Stupid?: Nicholas Carr worries about Google; Isle of Plenty: Robert McKie tells how Samsø has cut its carbon footprint; I ♥ Novels: Dana Goodyear chronicles the rise of the cellphone novel, Why I Blog: Andrew Sullivan explains the rewards of blogging; Rich Man's Burden: Dalton Conley laments the sprawling nature of work in the information age; Gin, Television, and Cognitive Surplus: Clay Shirky marvels at the 'cognitive surplus' unleashed by the decline of the TV sitcom ... and many others.

    This new generation of technology journalism is intensely focused on the present and deeply immersed in the fascinating complexity of digital life. Editor: Steven Johnson. (222 pages)
    Level: Gym. A/HTX

    0451527828

    Black Voices

    Poetry, fiction, autobiography and literary criticism. A comprehensive collection featuring the work of the major black voices of a century. Work by: Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Sterling Brown, Gwendolyn Brooks, Leroi Jones, W.E.B. Du Bois and many others (720 pages)
    Level: (C)/B/A

    9781409117377

    Book Lovers' Appreciation Society

    A very popular new collection of 35 stories written primarily (but not exclusively) for and by women:
    There are tales of love, friendship, passion and betrayal from some of the top names in fiction. A woman plans not only what she wants to wear to a school reunion, but who she wants to be ... A couple hope to start a new life in Spain but each of them completely misunderstands what the other one wants ... A girl whose brother falls in love with a beautiful male impersonator ... A woman haunted by ghosts from her past ... A newly divorced mother taking her teenage daughter to Crete for a holiday, longing to be young again, until she remembers how awful it is to be 17.
    There are stories by Maeve Binchy, Jane Fallon, Adriana Trigiani, Alexander McCall Smith, Anne Fine, Nicci French, Rosie Thomas, Joanna Trollope, Mark Mills, Kath Lette, Victoria Hislop, Wendy Holden and many others.
    Level: Gymnasiet

    1571316531

    California Coast – A Literary Field Guide

    “Stories from where we live”
    From an unusual series of US regional anthologies. Aimed at elementary and middle-school students in America and focused on the natural history of coastal California, this anthology includes poetry, excerpts from biographies, and essays, as well as stories from contemporary and historical sources. Loosely organized by subject (Adventures, Great Places, Reapers and Sowers, and Wild Lives), the selections feature the animal and plant life, the climate, the landscape and the history and myths of the region. Readers learn of Wells Fargo stagecoach “whips”, surfers who brave the sharks in the Red Triangle, and the "Pigeon Express" that carried mail to the Channel Islands in the days before radio. They meet a band of gold miners and a Native American woman who survived alone on an island for eighteen years. Some of the pieces are gems. Appendixes include maps, a description of the climate, an outline of basic habitats, a brief register of animals and plants, a selective list of parks and preserves, a map indicating selections by region, and a short bibliography. (232 pages)
    Level: C/B/Linjefag

    0435124455

    Charles Dickens Selection

    18 extracts from his novels (The Poorhouse – Oliver Twist; Mr Wackford Squeers: Headmaster of Dotheboys Hall – Nicholas Nickleby etc.), a whole short sory and some of his non-fiction. Hardback (194 pages)
    Level: mostly B
    159228213X

    Classic New England Stories

    “True Tales and Tall Tales of Character and Culture”

    This anthology gives us a picture of the literary roots of Yankee New England — the American region with perhaps the richest history and most varied character, which have shaped its literature. In this collection you’ll find classic works by such well-known writers as: Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sarah Orne Jewett and Louisa May Alcott — as well as works by lesser known figures such as Henry A. Shute and Thomas Bailey Aldrich. (288 pages)
    Level: A/B

    0451528247

    Classic Slave Narratives

    Four stories by people who survived Slavery in the Americas: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (a native African's tale of transportation across the Atlantic in a slave ship); The History of Mary Prince (the life of a slave woman on the Caribbean islands), Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (born to a slave mother and a white father, describes his quest for literacy), and Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (a look into the sexual pathology of slave-owning society). (672 pages)
    Level: (B)/A

    1853268976

    Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll

    Now in a larger format. Great for the money. You get Alice in Wonderland, Alice Through the Looking Glass, The Hunting of the Snark, nonsense verse, puzzles etc. Pæn udgave med letlæselig typografi.

    0099339315

    Essential Hemingway

    A major one-volume Ernest Hemingway collection at a reasonable price: Fiesta, long extracts from A Farewell to Arms, To Have and Have Not and For Whom the Bell Tolls, twenty-five complete short stories and the Epilogue to Death in the Afternoon. (461 pages)

    9780571230457

    Faber Book of Best New Irish Short Stories 2006-7

    This collection features unpublished authors as well as established names — such as Joseph O'Connor, Sebastian Barry, John Banville and Mary Leland. It is both a celebration of the Irish short story which is deeply rooted in Ireland's literary heritage and a signpost into the future in the form of a new generation of Irish writers emerging in a modern globalised Ireland. 24 stories. Edited by the poet David Marcus. (312 pages)
    Level: A/B
    0571179010

    Faber Book of Science

    An anthology that plots the development of modern science from Leonardo da Vinci to chaos theory. It consists of accounts by scientists themselves – astronomers, physicists, biologists, chemists, psychologists – who talk about their moments of breakthrough: the discovery of the secret of malaria; the first electric-light bulb; the construction of the world's first atomic pile. The book shows how science has changed art: how Newton's "Optics" flooded 18th-century poetry with colour; how the vastness of geological time terrified Tennyson and the Victorians; and how modernist writers struggled to adapt to Einstein's relativity. The classic science-writers are included – Darwin, Huxley etc. So too are today's experts and representatives of the late-20th-century genre of popular-science writing. (528 pages)
    Level: Gymnasiet/HTX/Projects/Library/Depot

    0582819075
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    Fields of Vision Volume 1

    Note our SPECIAL PRICE in 2010!

    The first volume of this user-friendly anthology that introduces your students to the appreciation of English literature and literary genres through a balanced selection of authors and texts.
    The book begins with an Introduction to Literary Appreciation (What is Poetry? – What is Drama? – What is Fiction?) This introduces students to the terms and concepts of each genre.

    This volume covers the fiction and poetry from the following periods:
    From the Origins to the Middle Ages; The Renaissance (including Shakespeare); The Puritan, Restoration and Augustan Ages; The Romantic Age. It consists of extracts from novels and plays — stories and a major selection of poetry. The use of extracts makes it possible to give your pupils an unrivalled background insight into periods and genres that no other current anthology can provide — and which will stand them in good stead when studying longer works or taking part in cross-curricular activities. Illustrated throughout. Clear layout to help your pupils find their way around.

    • Introduction to the literature, ideas, and historical and social background of each period
    • Each text is accompanied by:
        An English glossary
        Questions for comprehension and analysis
        A “Writer's Gallery” (Life and Works)
        A “Writer's Workshop” that takes up points such as Plot, Allegory, Literal and Symbolic Meaning etc.
    • Lots of thematic links to works of art, musical lyrics and other cross-curricular material of the periods
    • Authors covered include: Chaucer, Marlowe, Shakespeare (extracts from 4 plays + a selection of sonnets), Donne, Milton, Pope, Defoe, Swift, Fielding, Burns, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Scott, Poe etc. etc.

    Make sure that you have a look at this anthology. (278 pages/large format)
    Level: A/B OBS! Opfylder kravene til tekstperspektivering “i forhold til samfundsmæssige kulturelle, historiske [og litteraturhistoriske] sammenhænge” samt kendskab til “væsentlige strømninger i britisk og amerikansk litteraturhistorie” og “tekstanalytiske begreber”.

    (Handling charge: kr. 8,00 because of the weight of this book — reduceres ved større bestillinger.)

    0582819067
    smfieldsofvision

    Fields of Vision Volume 2

    Note our SPECIAL PRICE in 2010!

    This user-friendly anthology introduces your students to the appreciation of English literature and literary genres through a balanced selection of authors and texts. It covers the fiction and poetry of: The Victorian Age; Early Twentieth Century & Modernism; The Contemporary Age. The fiction in this anthology, is mostly extracts from novels and plays, but this technique makes it possible to give your pupils an unrivalled background insight into periods and genres that no other current anthology can provide — and which will stand them in good stead when studying longer works or taking part in cross-curricular activities. Illustrated throughout. Clear layout to help your pupils find their way around.

    • Introduction to the literature, ideas,  and historical and social background of each period
    • Each text is accompanied by:
        An English glossary
        Questions for comprehension and analysis
        A “Writer's Gallery” (Life and Works)
        A “Writer's Workshop” that takes up points such as Plot, Allegory, Literal and Symbolic Meaning etc.
    • Lots of thematic links to works of art, musical lyrics and other cross-curricular material of the periods
    • Authors covered include: Dickens, the Brontes, Stevenson, Wilde, Twain, Tennyson, Browning, E. Dickinson, Wells, Conrad, Lawrence, Joyce, Woolf, Orwell, Fitzgerald, Steinbeck, Yeats, Eliot, Auden, Frost, Miller, Greene, Ian McEwan, Roddy Doyle, Toni Morrison, Gordimer, Lessing, Ondaatje, Atwood, Rushdie, Larkin, Heaney, Plath, Pinter, Bennet etc.

    Warmly recommended. (278 pages/large format)
    Level: A/B OBS!! Opfylder kravene til tekstperspektivering “i forhold til samfundsmæssige kulturelle, historiske [og litteraturhistoriske] sammenhænge” samt kendskab til “væsentlige strømninger i britisk og amerikansk litteraturhistorie”.

    (Handling charge: kr. 8,00 because of the weight of this book — reduceres ved større bestillinger.)

    0582819083
    smfieldsofvisiontb

    Fields of Vision Teacher's Book

    Filmography. Literature Resources on the Internet. Answer Key. Seen and Unseen Text Analyses ... and much more.

    0582438810

    Fields of Vision Audio (MP3)

    NYHED!!

    Now available!
    The Fields of Vision audio files are now available in MP3 format. They are FREE! Put this item in your shopping basket and send it to us. We will mail you a link to a download page where you can download the files. Once you have the files you can distribute them to your students for use on their computers, iPods etc.

    9780143102441

    FIRST PROOF: Penguin Book of New Writing from India 3

    A great selection of new Indian poetry, fiction and non-fiction and an extract from a graphic novel. Contributions from relatively new authors as well as established names. Contributors to this volume include Sankar Sridhar, Neel Kamal Puri, Kishore Valicha, Nirupama Dutt, Ashok Malik, Jahnavi Barua, Shakti Bhatt, Parismita Singh, Avijit Ghosh and Temsula Ao. (248 pages)
    Level: Gymnasiet

    9780393328028

    Flash Fiction Forward — 80 very short stories

    This is a follow-up to the first “Flash Fiction” anthology of over a decade ago that made “flash” part of the vocabulary of modern literature. In this collection, the editors again tackle the problem: How short can a story be and still truly be a story? The editors have put together an anthology of many memorable and moving American flash stories from the last decade. There are stories from some of the best and most popular fiction writers of our time, including Ron Carlson, Robert Coover, Dave Eggers, Amy Hempel, A. M. Homes, Rick Moody, Grace Paley, John Updike and Paul Theroux. There are stories about loss, death, loneliness, desire, power and much more; there is serious realism and outlandish surrelaism. Major themes are compressed into 750 words — often with great poetic impact. Editors: James Thomas and Robert Shapard (237 pages)
    Level: C-A

    1905204701

    The Great Modern Poets

    “An Anthology of the Best Poets and Poetry since 1900”

    “The Great Modern Poets” is a great introduction to the twentieth and twenty-first century poets of the English-speaking world and their best poetry. The work of each poet is accompanied by a concise text that provides thematic insight, critical observations, and a historical context for their work. A beautifully produced, large-format hardback with excellent typography. A resource for the teacher — and a source of inspiration that invites readers to dip into it and reacquaint themselves with the work of our finest poets. Editor: Michael Schmidt

    Contents: Thomas Hardy – A. E. Housman – Rudyard Kipling – W. B. Yeats – Charlotte Mew – Robert Frost – Edward Thomas – Wallace Stevens – William Carlos Williams – D. H. Lawrence – Ezra Pound – Robinson Jeffers – Marianne Moore – T. S. Eliot – Hugh MacDiarmid – Edna St Vincent Millay – Wilfred Owen – E. E. Cummings – Robert Graves – Allen Tate – Laura Riding – Langston Hughes – W. H. Auden – A. D. Hope – Elizabeth Bishop – C. H. Sisson – Dylan Thomas – Robert Lowell – W. S. Graham – Keith Douglas – Edwin Morgan – Donald Davie – Philip Larkin – James K. Baxter – Allen Ginsberg – Frank O'Hara – John Ashbery – Thomas Kinsella – Thom Gunn – Adrienne Rich – Ted Hughes – Derek Walcott – Geoffey Hill – Sylvia Plath – Les Murray – Seamus Heaney – Eavan Boland – Jorie Graham – Andrew Motion – Carol Ann Duffy

    Level: Gymnasiet/Library/Depot

    1571316450

    Great North American Prairie – A Literary Field Guide

     “Stories from where we live”
    From an unusual series of US regional anthologies. Aimed at elementary and middle-school students in America, the stories, poems, journal entries, and essays in this anthology reflect life on the prairies of the U.S and Canada and the natural heritage of the prairies themselves. The selections, both historical and contemporary, are a mixture of fiction and information, and reflect the ethnic diversity of the inhabitants. This book includes songs and narratives of Plains Indians, tales of 19th-century settlers, and contemporary stories and poems. There are familiar authors such as Carl Sandburg, Willa Cather, and Louise Erdich, as well as lesser-known writers. Appendixes include maps of the region, a detailed discussion of various kinds of prairies, listings of flora and fauna, an index sorted by state or province, listings of parks and preserves, and bibliographies. (262 pages)
    Level: C/B/Linjefag

    0451527445

    Haves and Have-Nots

    30 stories about money and class in America. What happens: when the Have-nots pursue the American Dream? - when the rich meet the poor? - when people get so mired in poverty that the American Dream is meaningless? Stories by: Theodore Dreiser, James T. Farrell, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Raymond Carver, Jack London, Alice Walker, John Cheever, Katherine Anne Porter etc. (480 pages)
    Level: (C)/B/A

    9780521703239

    Ideas, insights and arguments (Cambridge Collections)

    A non-fiction collection:
    This anthology is collection of non-fiction texts. All are informative — they can also be entertaining, eye-opening, challenging, inspiring and poetic. The texts are arranged in five themed sections: The world around us; The world of work; Science; Parents and children; and Human rights and wrongs. The collection includes texts by Fergal Keane, Brian Keenan, Martin Luther King, George Orwell, Libby Purves, Lynne Truss and many others. Editor: Michael Marland. (246 pages)
    Level: Material for all levels of the gymnasium, especially the beginning

    Contents: 1. The world around us: A Roof of One's Own, Jeanette Winterson; My Bubble, My Rules, Lynne Truss; Society is Dead, Andrew Sullivan; Home Thoughts from Abroad, Jan Morris; The Demolition of Euston Arch, John Betjeman; For Compact, Sustainable Communities, Harley Sherlock; Worried? Us?, Bill McKibben. 2. The world of work: The Worst Jobs in History, Tony Robinson; Studying the Beach, Roberta Rosen; Work Expands so as to Fill the Time Available, Cyril Northcote Parkinson; Why I Write, George Orwell; Which Mother Knows Best? Po Bronson; Taking the Rap for Fashion 'Slaves', Gary Younge. 3. Science: The Last Word, Letters in the New Scientist; How to Build a Universe, Bill Bryson; The Life of Sir Alexander Fleming, Andre Maurois; The Natural Selection of Beauty, Charles Darwin. 4. Parents and children: That Certain Smile, Miles Kington; My Mother's Gift to Me, Sylvester Monroe; No Arms, No Legs ... But I Think My Life's Perfect, Rosaleen Moriarty-Simmonds; Letter to Daniel, Fergal Keane; Enabling Children to Make Moral Decisions, Letters in The Times; Learning Right from Wrong, Anita Gurian; What Bullying Means to Children, Jean La Fontaine; The Parrot's Training, Rabindranath Tagore. 5. Human rights and wrongs: One Kid's Blast against Bigotry, Libby Purves; This Last Fight for Human Freedom, Emmeline Pankhurst; 'I Have a Dream', Martin Luther King; 306 Pardons, One Act of Sanity, Ben Macintyre; Dead Man Talking, Steve Boggan; The Tollund Men, Brian Keenan.

    Actvities: For each text: Before you read; What's it about?; Thinking about the text?; Introduction; Further Reading; English glosses. For each section: Compare and contrast. Notes on authors.

    9780521703246

    Ideas, insights and arguments CD-Rom (Cambridge Collections)

    Contents: a) Printable, editable support material (including lesson plans and differentiated worksheets); b) A large selection of multimedia support material (such as photographs and audio clips). This Teachers' Resource CD-ROM provides good insights into a range of non-fiction texts. For use both with interactive whiteboards and on individual computers.
    9780521703192

    In the mix (Cambridge Collections)

    A collection of writing from around the world:
    This anthology is a collection of fiction, non-fiction and poetry from a host of countries including Afghanistan, Iraq, Japan and Rwanda. The texts can be inspirational, thought-provoking and shocking, and help us understand who we are and where we come from in today's global community. There are four themed sections: People and relationships; Violence, war and death; Personal freedom and Cultural traditions. There are texts by Simon Armitage, Zlata Filipovi , Nadine Gordimer, Roger McGough, Beverley Naidoo, Grace Nichols and many others. Editor: Esther Menon. (237 pages)
    Level: Material for all levels of the gymnasium, especially the beginning

    Contents: 1. People and relationships: The Seal Wife, retold by Jenny Tod; Out of Bounds, Beverley Naidoo; Mr Naidoo's Hundredth Birthday, Norman Silver; Three poems, Choman Hardi; Robert and the Dog, Ken Saro-Wiwa; In the Name of My Father, Ken Wiwa; A Place to Call Home, Simon Armitage. 2. Violence, war and death: The Hunting of Death, retold by Geraldine McCaughrean; Cassien's Story, Cassien Mbanda; Snipers, Roger McGough; Cut Me and I Bleed Khaki, Terence Blacker; Barefoot Gen, Keiji Nakazawa; Enola Gay, Esther Morgan; Homage, Nadine Gordimer. 3. Personal freedom: Zlata's Diary, Zlata Filipovi ; Cruelty to Children, R. K. Narayan; Guess Who Is Coming to Dinner, Darija Stojni ; The Mailed Parcel, Ibrahim Ahmed; Power, Jack Cope; How to Beat the System, Robert West. 4. Cultural traditions: Film Boy, Alexander McCall Smith; First Confession, Frank O'Connor; Two texts about jumbies, Grace Nichols; Night of the Scorpion, Nissim Ezekiel; The Long Trial, Andree Chedid; The Storyteller's Daughter, Saira Shah.

    Actvities: For each text: Before you read; What's it about?; Thinking about the text?; Introduction; Further Reading; English glosses. For each section: Compare and contrast. Notes on authors.

    9780521703208

    In the mix CD-Rom (Cambridge Collections)

    Contents: a) Printable, editable support material (including lesson plans and differentiated worksheets); b) A large selection of multimedia support material (such as photographs and audio clips). This Teachers' Resource CD-ROM reflects and celebrates the way in which stories from other cultures can enrich our lives. For use both with interactive whiteboards and on individual computers.

    9780199549825

    Irish Writing

    *NEW IN SPETEMBER 2010*
    An Anthology of Irish Literature in English 1789-1939
    This anthology traces the history of modern Irish literature from the revolutionary era of the late eighteenth century to the early years of political independence. It covers 150 years, from the writings of Charlotte Brooke and Edmund Burke to those of Elizabeth Bowen, Samuel Beckett and Louis MacNeice, and it shows how these writings continually challenge and renew the ways in which Ireland is imagined and defined. The anthology includes a wide-ranging selection of fiction, poetry, and drama. Three plays by W.B. Yeats, Augusta Gregory, and J.M. Synge are printed in their entirety, along with the opening episode of James Joyce's Ulysses. The volume also includes letters, speeches, songs, memoirs, essays, and travel writings, many of which are difficult to obtain elsewhere. Editor: Stephen Regan. (624 pages) Level: Gymnasiet / Library / Depot
    • Features essays, speeches, and memoirs as well as fiction, poems, plays, and stories.
    • Charts the emergence of a distinctive Irish literature.
    • Explores the concept of national identity and cultural nationalism.
    • Notes offer guidance on cultural, historical, and political issues.
    • Writers' biographies with lots of additional information.
    9781569245767

    Life-Changing Stories of Coming of Age

    This collection contains extracts from novels and autobiographies and one complete story. They all deal with the confusion, pain and joy involved in discovering the possibilities of life.The authors are: Jill Ker Conway (The Road from Coorain), Mary Karr (The Liars' Club), John Gardner (Grendel), Walter White (A Man Called White), Lynda Barry (The Good Times are Killing Me), Garrison Keillor (Don: The Story of a Young Person), Andrei Makine (Once Upon the River Love), Spalding Gray (Sex and Death to the Age of 14), Russell Baker (Growing Up), James Joyce (Araby), Betty Smith (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn), Albert Murray (Train Whistle Guitar), Sherwood Anderson (Winesburg Ohio).  Editor: Thomas Dyja. (295 pages)
    Level: Gymnasiet
    1571316434

    North Atlantic Coast – A Literary Field Guide

    “Stories from where we live”
    From an unusual series of US regional anthologies. Aimed at elementary and middle-school students in America and focused on the natural history of the North Atlantic Coast (Newfoundland to Delaware), this anthology consists of regional experiences passed on through stories, poems, and excerpts from journals and memoirs. (267 pages)
    Level: C/B/Linjefag
    9780521703253

    Outsiders (Cambridge Collections)

    A collection of fiction and non-fiction:
    This anthology is a collection of newspaper articles, poems, short stories and extracts from novels exploring the theme of ousiders — people who have experiences that set them apart from those around them. There are four themed sections: Fictional outsiders; Heroes and heroines; Moving places, moving lives and Feeling different. There are texts by Mark Haddon, Harper Lee, Doris Lessing, Michael Morpurgo, Gervase Phinn, Benjamin Zephaniah and many others. Editor: Roy Blatchford. (272 pages)
    Level: Material for all levels of the gymnasium, especially the beginning

    Contents: 1. Fictional outsiders: Why The Whales Came, Michael Morpurgo; The Highwayman, Alfred Noyes; The Pied Piper of Hamelin, Robert Browning; The Third Man, Graham Greene; To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee; The Man Who Planted Trees, Jean Giono; A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens; Silas Marner, George Eliot. 2. Heroes and heroines: Heroic Failures, Stephen Pile; Blind Spanish Woman Makes Television History, Julian Coman; Marla Runyan, Peter Sheridan; Touching The Void, Conn and Hal Iggulden; On Being John McEnroe, Tim Adams; The Madness of Man, Andrew Alderson; It's Not about the Bike, Lance Armstrong; Moondust, Andrew Smith. 3: Moving places, moving lives: Coming To England, Floella Benjamin; Refugee Boy, Benjamin Zephaniah; What's Your Problem?, Bali Rai; A Boy Called 'Grenade', Fergal Keane; Mirad, A Boy From Bosnia, Ad de Bont; Zlata's Diary, Zlata Filipovic; Shooting An Elephant, George Orwell; A Stranger's Eye, Fergal Keane. 4. Feeling different: The Rebel, D. J. Enright; Less Able, Gervase Phinn; Dear Aunty, Patricia Borlenghi; Face, Benjamin Zephaniah; The Rescue of Karen Arscott, Gene Kemp; Red Sky in the Morning, Elizabeth Laird; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Mark Haddon; The Fifth Child, Doris Lessing; The Bus People, Rachel Anderson.

    Actvities: For each text: Before you read; What's it about?; Thinking about the text?; Introduction; Further Reading; English glosses. For each section: Compare and contrast. Notes on authors.

    9780521703260

    Outsiders CD-Rom (Cambridge Collections)

    Contents: a) Printable, editable support material (including lesson plans and differentiated worksheets); b) A large selection of multimedia support material (such as photographs and audio clips). This Teachers' Resource CD-ROM provides an accessible view of the life of an 'outsider'. For use both with interactive whiteboards and on individual computers.
    9780199216819

    Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing

    Now in a cheaper paperback edition:
    Selected by Richard Dawkins, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing celebrates the finest writing by scientists for a wider audience — revealing that many of the best scientists have displayed as much imagination and skill with the pen as they have in the laboratory. The collection captures the poetry and excitement of communicating scientific understanding from 1900 to the present day. Professor Dawkins has included writing from a diverse range of scientists — all of whom convey the passion of great scientists writing about their science. (296 pages)
    Level: 2nd and 3rd year of the Gymnasium/HTX

    Contents: PART I: What Scientists Study; PART II: Who Scientists Are; PART III: What Scientists Think; PART IV: What Scientists Delight In. 
    • Includes extracts from the works of J.B.S. Haldane, Stephen Jay Gould, Albert Einstein, D'Arcy Thompson, Alan Turing, Richard Feynman, C.P. Snow, James Watson, Martin Rees, Steve Pinker, Jared Diamond, and Erwin Schrodinger among others.
    9780143039914

    Portable Edgar Allan Poe

    The Portable Poe compiles Poe's greatest writings. The 29 Tales are divided into Predicaments, Bereavements, Atagonisms,  Mysteries and Grotesqueries. They include The Pit and the Pendulum, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Cask of Amontillado, and The Murders in the Rue Morgue, the world's first detective story. The 21 Poems include The Raven, The Bells and Annabel Lee. In addition, this volume has selections of Letters, Critical Principles (On the Design of Fiction, The Poetic Principle etc.) and Observations (American Literary Independence, Reason and Government etc.). (628 pages)
    Level: Gymnasiet
    0140150021

    Portable Steinbeck

    Contains 9 complete stories, The whole of “Of Mice and Men” and “The Red Pony” travel writings, and Iong excerpts from “The Grapes of Wrath” “Tortilla Flat” and “In Dubious Battle” Introduction, Biographical Notes, Chronology etc. (692 pages)
    9781906994006

    Roads Ahead

    In this collection of 22 stories Catherine O’Flynn presents exciting new voices from the next generation of English writers ... young talents like Chris Killen and Richard Milward and new discoveries like Michelle Singh and Luke Brown. Iain Grant’s Six of the Best shifts the perspective on a pupil encountering his old teacher. Rodge Glass’s I know my Team unsentimentally captures the uneasiness between a daughter and the father she reluctantly visits in a nursing home. In Anietie Isong's Devotion a Nigerian mother has to prostitute herself to secure the release of her rebel son. Violence is a recurrent theme: in the grotesque murder of Michelle's Singh's Shooters; in David Savill's tale Table Rock Lake of a black man and his white lover who is a soldier in Iraq; and in Richard Milward's doomed female narrator of Venus in Firs. Daisy Cains's Never said a Word is a subtle story of a childish encounter with charming IRA bombers. Dea Brovig's tragic-comic Ania's Wake has an old man at his wife's funeral. (271 pages)
    Level: Stories for use from the beginning of the Gymnasium
    9780451529640

    Signet Book of Short Plays

    A new collection: 12 short plays by some of the best American playwrights. The plays range chronologically from 1931 to 2002. This introduction to the ever-evolving tradition of American theatre includes works from Kia Corthron, Daisy Foote, Horton Foote, Susan Glaspell, Greg Gunning, David Ives, William Saroyan, Shel Silverstein, Gore Vidal, Wendy Wasserstein, Thornton Wilder, and Tennessee Williams. (384 pages)
    Level: Gymnasiet

    0451523954

    Southern Short Stories

    33 stories (half by women and one third by blacks) reflecting the diversity of Southern life and short fiction. Stories by: Edgar Allen Poe, Kate Chopin, Alice Walker, Truman Capote, William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker etc. (528 pages)
    Level: (C)/B/A
    9780312442712

    Story and Its Writer

    The Story and Its Writer (edited by Ann Charters) is America's most comprehensive, diverse — and bestselling — college anthology of the short fiction of the world. It is notable for its student appeal as well as its quality and range. Ann Charters has an acute sense of which stories work most effectively in the classroom. She also knows that writers, not critics, have the most interesting things to say about the making and the meaning of fiction. So, to complement these stories, she includes a selection of the writers' own commentaries on the craft and traditions of the short story. Most of the stories are accompanied by one or more commentaries — writen by the writers themselves or other writers. Before each story, there is a small biography of the writer (about 3/4 of a page), often informing the reader about the origin of the story that follows. (This is the “Compact” Edition: 1128 pages)
    Level: Gymnasiet A/Linjefag

    Authors represented (1-3 stories each): Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, Tolstoy, Bierce, Jewett, de Maupassant, Chopin, Conrad, Chekhov, Perkins Gilman, Crane, Cather, Sherwood Anderson, London, Joyce, Kafka, Lawrence, Mansfield, Porter, Hurston, Faulkner, Borges, Hemingway, Frank O'Connor, Wright, Welty, Cheever, Olsen, Ellsion, Shirley Jackson, Paley, Gordimer, Baldwin, Flannery O'Connor, Márquez, Achebe, Rifaat, Munro, Updike, Mohr, Carver, Oates, Atwood, Bambara, Banks, Mukherjee, Allende, Bobbie Ann Mason, Walker, Tin O'Brien, Silko, Kincaid, Amy Tan, Cisneros, Erdrich, Gish Jen, Ha Jin, Divakaruni, David Foster Wallace, Alexie, Lahiri, Díaz, ZZ Packer.

    Casebooks: Raymond Carver (essays by and about Raymond Carver); Flannery O'Connor (essays by and about Flannery O'Connor); Graphic Storytelling.

    Appendices: Reading Short Stories, The Elements of Fiction, A Brief History of the Short Story, Writing About Short Stories, Literary Theory and Critical Perspectives, Glossary of Literary Terms, Chronological Listing of Authors and Stories.

    9780679772828

    Take Ten: new 10-minute plays

    An anthology of 32 “ten minute” short plays by some of America’s hottest drama writers. They include: Christopher Durang, John Guare, David Ives, Tony Kushner, David Mamet, Jane Martin, Joe Pintauro and August Wilson. It is rare to find so many short complete scenes by such high quality authors. Editors: Eric Lane and Nina Shengold. (360 pages)
    Level: All levels of the gymnasium

    9780553818826

    The Sun Book of Short Stories

    To celebrate the launch of Quick Reads in 2006, "The Sun" ran a short story competition called 'Get Britain Reading' in order to find the hidden talent among its ten million readers. There was a remarkable response, with hilarious, moving and powerful stories pouring in. The Sun Book of Short Stories contains a selection of the winning entries. Short and highly accessible stories. (95 pages)
    Level: C

    Read a sample story! CLICK HERE

    0571214630

    True Tales of American Life

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    180 short tales of American Life collected by Paul Auster and National Public Radio from NPR's listeners. A unique collection of tales of Death, Dreams, War, Families etc. by men and women of all ages, backgrounds, and walks of life — and a great resource for the teacher. (480 pages)
    Level: All levels of the gymnasium

    9780521703215

    Turning the corner (Cambridge Collections)

    A collection of post-millennium short stories:
    This anthology is a collection of post-millennium short stories exploring a sense of awakening or of reaching a turning point. There are five themed sections: Colliding worlds; Growing up; Meetings with death; Home and school and The world of adults. There are stories by Helen Dunmore, Jackie Kay, Matthew Kneale, Helen Simpson, Colm Toibin, Rose Tremain and many others. Editor: David A. Hill.  (232 pages)
    Level: Material for all levels of the gymnasium, especially the beginning

    Contents: 1. Colliding worlds: Pills, Matthew Kneale; My Polish Teacher's Tie, Helen Dunmore; Coloured Lights, Leila Aboulela. 2. Growing up: When the Wasps Drowned, Clare Wigfall; Lentils and Lilies, Helen Simpson; Will's Story, Julia Green; Lilac, Helen Dunmore; A Summer Job, Colm Toibin. 3. Meetings with death: The Pearce Sisters, Mick Jackson; The Chain, Donald Paterson; Waving at Trains, Matthew Davey; The Dead Are Only Sleeping, Rose Tremain; The Scream, Echo Freer; Visiting Time, Emma Brockes. 4. Home and school: The Boy Who Fell Asleep, Mick Jackson; There's a Hole in Everything, Mark Illis; Tuesday Lunch, Leila Aboulela; Butterfly, Preethi Nair. 5. The world of adults: Seasons, Matthew Kneale; Peerless, Rose Tremain; The Beast, Philip O Ceallaigh; Blinds, Jackie Kay; The Tree, Helen Simpson.

    Actvities: For each text: Before you read; What's it about?; Thinking about the text?; Introduction; Further Reading; English glosses. For each section: Compare and contrast. Notes on authors.

    9780521703222

    Turning the corner CD-Rom (Cambridge Collections)

    Contents: a) Printable, editable support material (including lesson plans and differentiated worksheets); b) A large selection of multimedia support material (such as photographs and audio clips). This Teachers' Resource CD-ROM explores the sense of reawakening in post-millenium short stories. For use both with interactive whiteboards and on individual computers.

    9780521703178

    Victorian literature (Cambridge Collections)

    A collection of fiction and non-fiction:
    This anthology is a collection of extracts from novels, newspaper articles, poems and short stories, providing an accessible view of the Victorian age. There are four themed sections: Adventures, Childhood, Urbanisation and Relationships. There are texts by Mrs Beeton, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Hardy, Henry Mayhew, Anthony Trollope, Mark Twain, Jules Verne and many others. Editor: Linda Marland. (264 pages)
    Level: Material for all levels of the gymnasium, especially the beginning

    Contents: 1. Adventures: The Water Babies, Charles Kingsley; Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne; How to Reach the Pole, article from The Graphic; Messages Without Wires, Guglielmo Marconi; A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains, Isabella Bird; The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells. 2. Childhood: The Way of all Flesh, Samuel Butler; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain; David Copperfield, Charles Dickens; Ragged Schools, article from The Illustrated London News; A London Child of the Seventies, Molly Vivian Hughes; A Horseman in the Sky, Ambrose Bierce; War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy. 3. Urbanisation: Children in the Coal Mines: The 1842 Report, R.H. Horne; The Cry of the Children, Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Narrative of a Pickpocket, Henry Mayhew; Song of the Shirt, Thomas Hood; Mary Barton, Mrs Gaskell; The Disturbance in the Manufacturing Districts, article from The Illustrated London News; 1851 or the Adventures of Mr & Mrs Sandboys, Henry Mayhew; Bleak House, Charles Dickens. 4. Relationships: The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens; The Son's Veto, Thomas Hardy; Laws Concerning Women, Barbara Bodichon; The Small House at Allington, Anthony Trollope; Definition of a Gentleman, John Henry Newman; Adam Bede, George Eliot; The Book of Household Management, Mrs Isabella Beeton; My Rights, Susan Coolidge; A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen.

    Actvities: For each text: Before you read; What's it about?; Thinking about the text?; Introduction; Further Reading; English glosses. For each section: Compare and contrast. Notes on authors.

    9780521703185

    Victorian literature CD-Rom (Cambridge Collections)

    Contents: a) Printable, editable support material (including lesson plans and differentiated worksheets); b) A large selection of multimedia support material (such as photographs and audio clips). This Teachers' Resource CD-ROM provides an accessible view of life in this fascinating age. For use both with interactive whiteboards and on individual computers.
    0582292484

    Voices of the Great War

    The best teaching anthology if you want to study the literature of this period.
    Selections of the poetry of Hardy, Kipling, Brooke, Sassoon, Rosenberg, Owen, Blunden, the women poets; non-fiction texts of the time; modern recreations in fiction (Susan Hill, Pat Barker etc.)
    Good introduction, glossary, study suggestions.
    Level: Gymnasiet etc.

    9780521703154

    Who we are (Cambridge Collections)

    A citizenship collection:
    This anthology is a mix of fiction, poetry, articles and autobiography exploring what it is to be human and examining the challenges we face as global citizens. It revolves around themes such as identity, rights, responsibilities and tradition. There are five themed sections: Growing pains; Letting go; Facing the world; Britain in the past and The world about us. There are texts by Maya Angelou, Arthur C. Clarke, Graham Greene, Doris Lessing, Penelope Lively, Roger McGough and many others. Editor: Geoff Barton.  (230 pages)
    Level: Material for all levels of the gymnasium, especially the beginning

    Contents: 1. Growing pains: Clara's Day, Penelope Lively; Sliding, Leslie Norris; Taming the Tiger, Tony Anthony; I Wish I Were ..., Rabindranath Tagore; I Was Left with a Childcarer ... and Never Collected, Barbara Brown. 2. Letting go: My Best Teacher, Vic Reeves; The Secret Life of Snap Decisions, Malcolm Gladwell; The Selfish Giant, Oscar Wilde; An African Elegy, Ben Okri; I Found Love at the Supermarket Checkout, Tom Hill; Warning to Children, Robert Graves. 3. Facing the world: If, Rudyard Kipling; Through the Tunnel, Doris Lessing; Almost Drowning, Richard Branson; The Boy Who Fell out of the Sky, Ken Dornstein; Once in a House on Fire, Andrea Ashworth; My Mam's Death, Samantha Studley. 4. Britain in the past: The Year 1000, Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger; Down the Mine, George Orwell; The Village Blacksmith, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; MCMXIV, Philip Larkin; The Roses of No Man's Land, Lyn MacDonald; Not My Best Side, U. A. Fanthorpe. 5. The world about us: The Destructors, Graham Greene; We Are Going to See the Rabbit, Alan Brownjohn; Song of the Battery Hen, Edwin Brock; Alexander Graham Bell and the Telephone, Adam Hart-Davis and Paul Bader; Hunger, Laurence Binyon; Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser; Facts to Change the World, Jessica Williams; Somebody's Watching You, Alexandra Campbell; Televised, Maya Angelou; The Fish Are All Sick, Anne Stevenson; The Lake, Roger McGough; Before Eden, Arthur C. Clarke.

    Actvities: For each text: Before you read; What's it about?; Thinking about the text?; Introduction; Further Reading; English glosses. For each section: Compare and contrast. Notes on authors.

    9780521703161

    Who we are CD-Rom (Cambridge Collections)

    Contents: a) Printable, editable support material (including lesson plans and differentiated worksheets); b) A large selection of multimedia support material (such as photographs and audio clips). This Teachers' Resource CD-ROM provides an accessible view of what it is to be human and the challenges we face as global citizens. For use both with interactive whiteboards and on individual computers.