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The experience of literature

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Table of Contents (the following all with commentaries/criticism): Sophocles - Oedipus Rex; William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of King Lear; Henrik Ibsen - The Wild Duck; Anton Chekhov - The Three Sisters; George Bernard Shaw - The Doctor's Dilemma; Luigi Pirandello - Six Characters in Search of an Author: a comdey in the making; William Butler Years - Purgatory; Bertolt Brecht - Galileo; Nathaniel Hawthorne - My Kinsman, Major Molineaux; Herman Melville - Bartleby the Scrivener: a story of Wall Street; Fedor Dostoevski - The Grand Inquisitor; Leo Tolstoi - The Death of Ivan Ilych; William Somerset Maugham - The Treasure; Guy de Maupassant - Duchoux; Anton Checkhov - Enemies; Henry James - The Pupil; Joseph Conrad - The SEcret Sharer; James Joyce - The Dead; Franz Kafka - The Hunter Gracchus; D.H. Lawrence - Tickets, Please; E.M. Forster - The Road from Colonus; Thomas Mann - Disorder and Early Sorrow; Isaac Babel - Di Grasso: a tale of Odessa; Isak Dinesen - The Sailor-Boy's Tale; Ernest Hemingway - Hills Like White Elephants; William Faulkner - Barn Burning; John O'Hara Summer's Day; Lionel Trilling - Of this Time, of that Place; Albert Camus - The Guest; Bernard Malamud - The Magic Barrel; Various poems by Sir Thomas Wyatt, John Donne, John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Alexander Pope, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Gordon, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Matthew Arnold, Walt Whitman, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Emily Dickinson, William butler Yeats, Thomas Stearns Eliot, robert Frost, E.E. Cummings, W.H. Auden, Robert Lowell The following additional poems are included by the following authors but do not have commentary/criticism: John Skelton, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Sir Walter Ralegh, William Shakespeare, Thomas Nashe, Sir John Davies, Ben Jonson, John Donne, John Webster, Robert Herrick, George Herbert, Thomas Carew, James Shirley, Edmund Waller, John Milton, Sir John.

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1967

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1,320 pages

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Doubleday

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ENG

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