Literature Of The Western World

Download or read book Literature of the Western World written by Brian Wilkie and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 2116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive best selling anthology of its kind, the second volume in this two-part survey enables leaders to choose among the most important canonical and less-familiar texts of the Western literary tradition in Europe and the Americas. It offers complete texts whenever possible, uses the best translations of foreign-language material, and, when appropriate, presents more than one text by each author. Volume Two provides detailed historical and biographical notes and introductions to the later literary periods including Neoclassicism and Romanticism; Realism and Naturalism; and Modern and Contemporary.