Writing About Literature, Brief Edition (10th Edition)

This book is a tool that allows the reader to think critically about literature in order to effectively write about it. Included is a fine anthology of classic stories, poems, and plays; it contains discussions of such important literary subjects as character, setting, and symbolism, and provides a guide for readers to produce good essays about what they've read. This useful book contains information about the process of reading, responding to, and writing about literature. Included are stories by Bierce, Chopin, Hardy, Hawthorne, de Maupassant, O'Connor, and Poe; poems by Arnold, Blake, Coleridge, Frost, Hardy, Hughes, Keats, Owen, Shakespeare, Yeats, and Wordsworth; and plays by Chekhov and Glaspell. For anyone who is interested in learning to read literature critically in order to effectively write.