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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.

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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.

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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.

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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:

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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

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New edition. Includes:

An imaginative anthology that contains:

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

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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. Hardback. 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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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Hardback edition at a very low price. Contains the whole of Tales of Mystery and Imagination and The Raven and Other Poems etc. (973 pages)

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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)

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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

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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)

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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)

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

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Now available at a great price — the 3 cassettes to accompany the Fields of Vision anthologies.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.