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A textbook reader for Dr. Roy Bearden-White's English 1302 classes at South Plains College. My original goal in assembling this project, was to create a textbook, specifically designed for use in English 1302 at South Plains College, that was, first and foremost, affordable for the limited budget of college students. With the ever-escalating costs of higher education in general and textbooks in particular, the final objective seemed abundantly...

This textbook on academic writing and rhetoric, with selected readings, has been designed especially for Dr. Roy Bearden-White's English 1301 & English 1302 classes at South Plains College. Based upon seventeen years of teaching College Composition, Bearden-White's Craft of the Essay provides a streamlined, no-nonsense approach to college writing. Focusing upon argumentation and rhetoric, students learn about the recursive nature of writing, f...

Based upon seventeen years of teaching College Composition, Bearden-White's Craft of the Essay provides a streamlined, no-nonsense approach to college writing. Focusing upon argumentation and rhetoric, students learn about the recursive nature of writing, from idea creation to drafting, expanding, researching, and revising. Emphasis is placed upon students gaining the skills to understand and analyze the type of arguments they will be confront...

This collection of gothic stories includes selections from the late 18th century to the early 20th century and includes: Barbauld, Anna. "Sir Bertrand, a Fragment", Crookenden, Isaac "The Vindictive Monk", Brown, Charles Brockden. "Somnambulism", Polidori, John William. "The Vampyre", Irving, Washington. "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", Scott, Walter "The Tapestried Chamber", Le Fanu, Sheridan "Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter",...

This collection of horror stories includes selections from the late 18th century to the early 20th century and presents a literary evolution of the vampire. This volume includes:"Christabel" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge"A Fragment" by George Gordon, Lord Byron"The Vampyre" by John William Polidori "Wake Not the Dead" by Johann Ludwig Tieck"Clarimonde" by Théophile Gautier"The Mysterious Stranger" by Karl von Wachsmann"The Last Lords of Gardonal"...

A collection of well-known works of drama, including Lysistrata by Aristophanes, the Morality play Everyman, William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Aphra Behn's The Rover, The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Escape by William Wells Brown, Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, Trifles by Susan Glaspell, and Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello.

At one major publishing house, there is a running joke that the second book published on the Gutenberg press was about the death of the publishing business. While this joke is an obvious exaggeration, there is a certain amount of truth that with each advance in technology, with each printing innovation or invention, a similar death dynamic occurred. This was most noticeable during the tumultuous years of the eighteenth century when a veritable...

During the 18th century, not all books were found in bookstores or libraries. In London, itenerate book salesmen wandered the streets hawking their wares. The books they sold were cheap and often poorly printed, but they represented the beginnings of popular reading among the growing lower classes. Henry and Ann Lemoine were among the most prolific writers and publishers of street literature in the late eighteenth-century and theirs is a story...

An Anthology of World Literature Volume Two: Modern World Literature from 1700. A textbook for use with Dr. Roy Bearden-White's Modern World Literature course, English 2333, at South Plains College. This textbook includes canonical works from the eras of Enlightenment, Romanticism, Existentialism, Transcendentalism, Realism, Symbolism, Regionalism, and Modernism, The authors in this anthology represent England, Germany, Russian, America, Norwa...

An Anthology of World Literature. Volume One: Early World Literature to 1700. A textbook for use with Dr. Roy Bearden-White's Early World Literature course, English 2332, at South Plains College. This textbook includes canonical works from the Ancient World, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance, with representations from Egypt, India, China, Spain, Italy, Scandinavia, England, and the Middle East.