Description

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Develop close readers and confident writers—at an affordable price.

This diverse and affordable collection offers the trusted writing guidance students need, along with the exciting mix of stories, poems, and plays instructors want. The Thirteenth Edition adds more contemporary works to engage today’s students and new pedagogical tools to help foster close reading and careful writing, making this book the best choice for helping students appreciate, analyze, and write.

About the Author

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Kelly J. Mays has taught writing and literature courses for 25 years — at Stanford University (where she earned her Ph.D.), in the Harvard Expository Writing Program, at New Mexico State University, and (since 2001) at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, where she is now an Associate Professor of English.  A British literature specialist whose work has appeared in Victorian Studies, Victorian Poetry, Critical Inquiry, and other major scholarly journals, she is currently at work on a book exploring when and why nineteenth-century Britons began to label their age, their literature, and even themselves "Victorian."