literary collections

Describes life in the Great Lakes Region through stories, poems, and essays.

Translates more than one hundred poems, stories, plays, and other written works representing seven centuries of Chinese literature.

The African wilderness brought to life through nature and travel stories and traditional myths.

The history, story, and impressions of the city of Chicago as seen by some of America's most notable authors.

Presents Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic novel "The Scarlet Letter," along with selected short stories, poems, and essays.

A multicultural collection of stories, poems, essays, drama, and photographs by past and current residents of Queens, New York.

An anthology of writings from classical Rome, including literary, artistic, social, religious, political, scientific, and philosophical texts; organized within three time periods ranging from 509 B.C. to A.D. 476.

Includes twentieth century literature from Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, East, South, and Southeast, Asia, and aboriginal writings from Australia and New Zealand, offering poetry, fiction, plays, and memoirs written by 180 authors from sixty-one countries and translated from approximately twenty-three languages.