english literature

An anthology introducing the major authors and works of English literature from the Romantic period through the Victorian Age and the Twentieth Century.

Contains Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" about a scientist who creates a monster from various dead bodies and H. G. Wells's "The Island of Doctor Moreau" in which victims of a shipwreck in the Pacific discover an island ruled by an ominous scientist who performs ghastly genetic experiments which change animals into grotesque, partially human creatures, and includes a selection of essays on themes in the two novels.

Presents poems, stories, plays, and other types of writings related to Halloween by such authors as W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, Edgar Allan Poe, and Edith Wharton, spanning the sixteenth through the twentieth century.

Contains the complete texts of nearly all of the writings of Jonathan Swift along with background materials and critical essays of Swift's work by a number of notes authors.

Presents essays that describe the lives and examine the principal works of significant British authors, covering eighteen writers in alphabetical order from Caroline Blackwood to Charles Walter Stansby Williams. Includes a cumulative index and primary and secondary selected bibliographies.