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Literature: The Human Experience: Reading and Writing Tenth Edition

by Richard Abcarian (Author), Marvin Klotz (Author), Samuel Cohen (Author)

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Literature: The Human Experience is based on a simple premise: All students can and will connect with literature if the works they read are engaging, exciting, and relevant. Accordingly, every edition of this classroom favorite has featured a broad range of enticing stories, poems, plays, and essays that explore timeless, ever-resonant themes: innocence and experience, conformity and rebellion, culture and identity, love and hate, and the presence of death. The affordable new edition, with a new co-author, freshens the successful formula with an infusion of contemporary literature and a more focused approach to making connections — across time and cultures — between literature and life.

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RICHARD ABCARIAN (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is a professor of English emeritus at California State University, Northridge, where he taught for 37 years. During his teaching career, he won two Fulbright professorships. In addition to editing Literature: The Human Experience and its compact edition, he is the editor of a critical edition of Richard Wright's A Native Son, as well as several other literature textbooks.

MARVIN KLOTZ (Ph.D., New York University) is a professor of English emeritus at California State University, Northridge, where he taught for 33 years and won Northridge's distinguished teaching award in 1983. He is also the winner of two Fulbright professorships (in Vietnam and Iran) and was a National Endowment for the Arts Summer Fellow twice. In addition to editing Literature: The Human Experience and several other textbooks, he coauthored a guide and index to the characters in Faulkner's fiction.

SAMUEL COHEN (Ph.D., City University of New York) is an assistant professor in the English Department at the University of Missouri where he won the 2008 Provost’s Outstanding Junior Faculty Teaching Award. He is the author of After the End of History: American Fiction in the 1990s (University of Iowa Press, 2009) and has published in such journals as Novel, Clio, Twentieth-Century Literature, The Journal of Basic Writing, and Dialogue: A Journal for Writing Specialists. His other book for Bedford/St. Martin’s is 50 Essays: A Composition Anthology, now in its second edition.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bedford/St. Martin's; Tenth edition (October 19, 2009)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 1504 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0312556446
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0312556440
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.7 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.47 x 1.51 x 9.13 inches

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Ginamarie

Really good

Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2012

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Needed this for English in college. It was much cheaper than the book store and other online stores. I also didn't have to pay for shipping and received it in two days because i had student prime, which anyone with a college email can get a trial of. Then when i was done with it I sold it back to Amazon for more than half of what I bought it because I chose store credit, so I bought my next English book and did the same thing with that. Was very happy!

Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2019

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Bought this for a literature class, one of the few textbooks I didn't sale back. Full of great short stories that expand (possibly even challenge) your understanding of the human experience.

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helena

a strictly logistic review

Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2014

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I had to buy this book for my high school english class. It does not take up much room (unlike the Norton Anthologies) and is holding up quite well compared to some of my other books. I am a pretty messy person, so I just kind of carelessly throw it into my locker everyday, but it still looks great!

Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2012

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I took English 111 in college and this was the textbook. It was excellent. The stories were interesting and thought provoking. It contained famous pieces of literature, poems, short stories, and playwrights. Worth every penny!

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Brent Mason Webber

Great Deal!!

Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2014

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i was going to purchase the book at my schools bookstore, but found it here for 8 bucks instead of 80.. dodged a bullet.

Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2014

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The copy I received was horrendously damaged, though I suppose that isn't pertinent to a review of the materials. The materials were little better. There were redeeming texts, however, many of the pieces seem crafted to make a person as dangerously depressed as possible. References to suicide, torture, murder and drug abuse seem disproportionately abundant. This in no way crafts a healthy mind and does not contribute to bettering the world of learning, as any educational text ought.

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Loved the way it is organized and was a great ...

Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2014

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Got this used for a literature course. Loved the way it is organized and was a great and varied selection of readings.

Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2010

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This book has a lot of material inside of it. Which is nice because the professor only has you buy this one book, which saves money. However it's a bit cumbersome, trying to figure out which page we're working on, today. It doesn't go straight from left to right, you jump around quite a bit.

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