Presents the travel narratives of four seventeenth- and eighteenth-century American colonists, which relate such experiences as capture by Native Americans and survey of a disputed boundary line. Includes an introduction, explanatory notes, and an extensive selected bibliography.
Presents the complete, annotated texts of four Shakespeare tragedies, including "Hamlet," "Othello," "King Lear," and "Macbeth," each with an introduction.
Presents a selection of writings by Roman poet Ovid, including the complete elegies from the "Amores," and "Heroides," poems of exile, and excerpts from longer works, rendered in English by a variety of translators.
Presents self-contained sections from William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha novels, including such stories as "A Rose for Emily," "That Evening Sun," and "Old Man"; a Yoknapatawpha County map; a chronology of the Compson family; and Faulkner's 1950 Nobel Prize address.
Contains six stories by nineteenth-century American writer Stephen Crane, including the title selection which explores the psychological effects of war through the experiences of a Union recruit in the Civil War whose dreams of glory are shattered by the realities of battle.
